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1. Printers Default Printer PowerRIP For Stylus Colo on LPT1 Installed Printers 10 Birmy Graphics Corporation 7 1 l Connect PowerRIP For Stylus Color Local Port Local Port Timeouts seconds povio Mes 5 gdheves ferad Tv orewinde rhor Patras C9 East Printing Direct to Port Then select OK The program installation is now complete PowerRIP must be registered before you can use it Go to the section Registering your Software When you print from an application it will ask you for a file name You can use almost any name but you must print to C BIRMY directory or the drive letter where PowerRIP was installed Print To File Output File Name C BIRMYWOB Note When printing under Windows 3 11 PowerRIP does not return user operation until printing is fin ished Birmy Graphics Corporation 11 PowerRIP Windows 95 Printer Driver Installation le Click on Start Settings Printers section of Windows 95 2 Click on Add Printer then Next 4 Add Printer 12 Birmy Graphics Corporation 3 Click on Local Printer then Next Note You may not see this screen if you are not on a network Add Printer Wizard 4 Click on Have Disk st tr Apple LaserWriter il NT Apple LaserWriter Personal NT Apple LaserWriter NT 1Apple LaserWriter tit Apple LaserWriter lig Birmy Graphics Corporation 13 5 Put the PowerRIP Windows 95 Printer Driver disk in driv2. The workstations then only need to load PowerRIP print drivers and not the PowerRIP program 22 Birmy Graphics Corporation Windows NT PowerRIP Setup On Windows NT Network print sharing with PowerRIP can have only one person print to a queue at a time so if you want several people to print simultaneously you need to set up different print queues with unique file names and share names This is done the same way as setting up a regular printer queue Set up a print queue as described in the previous section but type C BIRMY IN2 PS instead of IN ps in step 7 If your drive is different than C type that drive letter This is only at the computer running PowerRIP workstations will setup to print to a network printer which is this printer when the sharing options is checked This will give you two print queues one that will write a file called IN ps and one called IN2 ps You may add additional ports as long as the file and share names are unique Workstation Setup for Windows 3 11 for Workgroups Windows 95 and Windows NT The workstations only need to load the appropriate Windows Drivers If PowerRIP is running under Windows NT instead of printing to a Local Printer select a Network Printer or Connect to a Network printer depending on your version of Windows If PowerRIP is running under Windows 3 11 for Workgroups or 95 search for the computer that is running PowerRIP and connect to it Do not run the PowerRIP program on
3. individual computers only the PowerRIP Windows print drivers Please see you Windows documentation for more information or printer and file sharing Birmy Graphics Corporation 53 Registering Your Software You must register your copy of PowerRIP before you can use it Follow these steps 1 Click on the registration icon 2 When you see the prompt insert Disk 1 into Drive A or B and click OK Help 24 Birmy Graphics Corporation 3 Call the registration number 800 613 3031 You will need your Serial Number and Printer Code found on the Registration Screen Do not call this phone number for technical support Call the numbers listed on page 3 for technical support PowerfliP PC Regis 4 When given the unlock code type it in the Unlock Code box and click OK Your PowerRIP is now ready to use See Section 2 for instructions on customizing PowerRIP Birmy Graphics Corporation 05 Customizing PowerRIP 1 26 Birmy PowerRIP If you haven t rebooted your system Section 2 and you are running Windows 3 1 do so now If you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT proceed without rebooting Double click on the PowerRIP icon in the PowerRIP window The program will take a few seconds to load When the cursor returns the program has loaded Minimize the Program Manager window by clicking on the down button in the upper right side of the window The Birmy icon should now be visible along w
4. makes no warranties whatsoever either express or implied regarding this product including warranties with respect to its merchantability or its fitness for any particular purpose All other trademark are the properties of their respective owners Table of Contents Section 1 Installation System Requirements Operational Overview PANTONE Birmy Technical Support Installing the Software Windows 3 11 Printer Driver Windows 95 Printer Driver Windows NT Printer Driver Operating PowerRIP Printing from a Network Registering your Software OST RO Roel N 5 RIR AJN Section 2 Customizing PowerRIP Printer Menu File Menu Section 3 Testing PowerRIP Section 4 Tips and Obtaining the Best Printing Quality Section 5 Troubleshooting Section 6 Glossary Installation Birmy PowerRIP Section 1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE Intel 486 or higher processor 8 MB Minimum of RAM for Windows and Windows 95 24 MB minimum of RAM for Windows NT See section 4 for more on RAM VGA or SVGA color monitor Mouse 3 5 floppy drive Hard drive with at least 40 MB free for letter size and 80 MB free for ledger size paper Keyboard LPT printer output port SOFTWARE Windows 3 1 or higher Windows 95 or Windows NT 3 51 or higher Intel version NOTE Before installation Ensure that printer port LPT is installed and active B Ensure that 40 MB free space is avail able on your ha
5. on the C drive then it will scan the drive letter you installed it on 9 Birmy Graphics Corporation PANTONE PANTONE professional color palette files are included in your PowerRIP package These files can be read directly into commonly used applications so the user can have printer calibrated versions of all PANTONE Colors for the EPSON Stylus Pro and Pro XL models The file is a self extracting zip file Just copy it to any desired directory and type Epalete d from the DOS prompt and it will extract itself and make its own subdirectories Remember to use the d after Epalete or the subdirectories will not extract correctly See the readme file on the PANTONE disk for use with your application This is also a self extracting 3MB file Copy this to your hard disk and type Readme from the DOS prompt then open the file it created called PANTONE WRI with the Windows Write program PowerRIP Technical Support For technical assistance with the installation configuration and operation of Birmy PowerRIP please call Birmy Customer Support at 407 723 2893 The hours of opera tion are 9am 8pm EST Please do not call the Birmy Fulfillment Center for techni cal information There are no support personnel at that location the phone number is for the PowerRIP registra tion only Birmy Graphics Corporation 3 When calling for technical assistance be ready to identify your system and its configuration the serial number of your copy of
6. program epson CD resource List Files of Type D rives Output Log File LOG c bob Print opens a PostScript File box You have the option of selecting the drive directory and file name of a PostScript job to print Also included is a directory called Examples which contains a job for testing See Section 3 30 Birmy Graphics Corporation Open A PostScript File Directories c powerrip examples GC cA C3 powerrip examples List Fifes of Type Drives Postscript File PS a About gives you information about PowerRIP The product version and revision should be included on all information sent to Birmy Graphics Corporation with support questions About PowerRIP Exit quits the program Birmy Graphics Corporation 31 Testing PowerRIP Birmy PowerRIP Section 3 1 Set up your EPSON Stylus printer using the instructions in your EPSON User s Guide 2 Turn on the computer and start Windows oo Turn on your Stylus printer 4 Double click on the Birmy icon in the PowerRIP window When the program has finished loading and the cursor returns to the screen minimize the Program Manager window by clicking on the down arrow in the upper left of the screen o1 Double click on the Birmy icon This will maximize the Power RIP window 6 Click on Printer The pulldown menu will appear 7 Select Options Set the following options A Media Type Coated Paper B
7. to 64 MB of RAM Once full EPSON Stylus printer speed is obtained an increase in RAM will not improve performance Quark If you have the Eficolor profile option select none 36 Birmy Graphics Corporation To obtain high quality color images keep the follow ing points in mind Use the manufacturer s inks and recommended paper for your ink jet printer e Papers designed for ink jet printers have special coatings to evenly distribute the ink and are differ ent than uncoated bond papers used in laser printers and copiers e Birmy Graphics has balanced the stochastic half tone screening and color technology to work with Epson s inks and recommended papers Stochastic screening is a random dot pattern as opposed to a fixed screen ruling Stochastic screen produces more tones and has better detail than fixed screen rulings Maximum density for color Your PowerRIP has been designed to allow users to print up to 300 maximum color from CMYK files Exceeding this number will cause problems with excess ink Many desktop drawing applica tions set black to 400 by default A black of 400 wastes ink and is too dense to print well on desktop ink jet printers as well as large commercial offset presses Most magazine s printing standards depending on the publication and stock only allow maximum black within a range of 260 to 285 Birmy Graphics Corporation 37 Cancelling a print job Windows 3 11 To cancel a print jo
8. IRMY directory just print their files to this directory Now go to the section on Printing from Workstations on a Network Birmy Graphics Corporation PowerRIP Windows NT 3 5 1 Printer Drivers Installation 1 Click on Print Manager in the Main Folder Select Printer and Create Printer oe Print Manager pe Rua Document Options Security Window Help Connect to Print RE Create Punter Properties Forms Pause Resume Purge Printer 2 Enter PowerRIP under printer name and go to driver and select Other Printer Name PowerRIP Driver Other Description Print to wer 3 You will then be prompted to put the PowerRIP Windows NT drivers disk into drive A Insert it into drive A or B if your drive is B D Install Driver Please put the disk in the drive indicated or select anew path name Birmy Graphics Corporation 17 Select your printer and click OK Source Directory Printer Driver Feet BIP ber Stuka COLOR PowerRiP for Stylus Pro PowerRiP for Stylus Pro XL Select Local Port Print Destinations Available Print Monitors Digital Network Port Other Type C BIRMY IN PS and click OK If your drive is different than C type that drive letter Ee Port Name Enter a port name CABIRMYIN PS Birmy Graphics Corporation 10 If you want to share the printer select Share Click OK If share is selected then see the section on Printing from
9. Microweave On C Optional features Uni directional D Resolution 720 E Stochastic On F RGB Calibrated On NOTE If you are using plain or glossy paper set the media type accordingly 39 Birmy Graphics Corporation Stylus Options 8 Click OK 9 To open a PostScript file box click on File click on Print Clase lag Open fog Birmy Graphics Corporation 33 10 In the PostScript File box click on PowerRIP Then select examples You should see the PostScript example cgolfer ps in the left box Directories c powerrip examples CG cA Si E gt powerip my examples O Read Onty List Filer of Type Postacript File PS 11 Click on cgolfer ps then click OK 12 The program will now process the PostScript file cgolfer ps The program will take a few seconds to a couple of minutes depending on the speed of your computer and the amount of memory it has The output will be a golfer drawing in color 34 Birmy Graphics Corporation Tips and Obtaining Birmy PowerRIP the Best Section 4 Printing Quality The Birmy Graphics PowerRIP is a true Adobe Level 2 PostScript Raster Image Processor A true Adobe Level 2 PostScript RIP has the ability to use color rendering dictionaries when the RIP is driving a color printer These color render ing dictionaries are automatically accessed by the Adobe Photoshop program when printing directly to the printer Images created in Photoshop c
10. PowerRIP and a description of the problems you are encountering Please refer to the Troubleshooting Section for solutions before calling Technical Support Birmy Graphics Voice 407 723 2893 Fax 407 768 9669 Email PowerRIP Support Birmy com Mailing address Birmy Graphics Corporation 250 East Drive Melbourne Florida 32904 4 Birmy Graphics Corporation Installing the Software Before installing PowerRIP make backup copies of all the installation disks There is no copy protection on the disks You will be required to register PowerRIP and obtain the unlock code for your copy PoweRIP after installation If your system does not meet the minimum hardware and software requirements PowerRIP will not work correctly PowerRIP Installer automatically loads the following e 32 Bit WIN32S Windows libraries if not already loaded e PowerRIP software User manually installs e PowerRIP Windows Printer Drivers To install PowerRIP 1 Turn on the computer and start Windows 2 Insert the floppy disk labeled PowerRIP Disk 1 into the floppy drive either A or B 3 From the Windows 3 11 Program Manager select File then Run For Windows 95 instructions see the note on the next page Hs _ Program Manage 2 Options Window Help New Open Move F7 1 Copy F8 1 Delete Det Properties Alt Enter Birmy Graphics Corporation 4 In the command line type A SETUP and click OK If you are
11. PowerRIiP Version 3 1 Windows 3 11 Windows 95 Windows NT 3 51 Intel for EPSON Stylus Color EPSON Stylus Pro EPSON Stylus Pro XL INSTALLATION amp OPERATION MANUAL Birmy PowerRIP The Software Program That Turns Your Printer Into A True Adobe PostScript Level 2 Imager cs Adobe PostScript 1995 Birmy Graphics Corporation All Rights Reserved This manual may not in whole or in part be copied photocopied reproduced translated transmitted or converted to any electronic or machine readable form without prior written consent of Birmy Graphics Corporation Information contained in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Birmy Graphics Corporation Birmy Graphics Corporation does not warrant guarantee or make any representation regarding the use or the result of the use of any color system included in Birmy products Video simulations may not match printed color output PowerRIP is a registered trademark of Birmy Graphics Corp Adobe and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions Windows Windows 95 Win32s and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corpora tion in the U S A and other countries Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation EPSON and EPSON Stylus are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation This program was written for Windows based systems and
12. Workstations on a Network EME Create Printer Printes Name PowerhiP ES Driven PowerRIP los Stylus Pio TE Dasutiption Print to CBIRMVIN PS j _ CE Share this printer on the network Share Name cs Now go back to Print Manager and create another printer cet Print Manager papa aiu Document Options Connect to Printer See gi Create Printer Properties Eorms Pause pesume Es 1 Name it LPT Select the PowerRIP driver that is now in the system under printers Select the Print to as LPT1 port or the LPT port that your EPSON is con nected to and click OK Do not share this printer E Printer Properties Printer Name PSE SR Driver PowerRlP or Stylus Pro XL K omi es Print to C Share this printer on the network Birmy Graphics Corporation 20 This LPT Print queue is where PowerRIP sends the job after it is ripped Here is where you can cancel pause or purge the jobs before they are sent to the printer Note PowerRIP sends a small 30 byte file before each print job This 30 byte file contains information for the printer to setup resolution and other options This 30 byte file does not print a page Pri Document Options Security Window EE Poweh iP The program installation is now complete PowerRIP must be registered before you can use it Go to the section Registering your Software Birmy Graphics Corporation Operating PowerRIP To operate P
13. ager check PowerRIP is set to file and not an LPT port Also check that PowerRIP is minimized PowerRIP only scans for files when mini mized On Windows NT make sure printer driver prints to the Birmy directory and not an LPT port See Printer Driver section for more information Problem PowerRIP not registered Solution Register PowerRIP by calling the 800 613 3031 Birmy Fulfillment Center phone num ber This number is only for registration Problem Wrong fonts or very jagged type Solution Most fonts are downloaded with the print job Sometimes a bitmap image of a font is downloaded If the page is missing a font PowerRIP will default the Courier font or print the bitmap image of a font Check to make sure you have the printer fonts Also the print heads may need cleaning Problem PowerRIP takes a long time before printing Starts Solution Add more RAM or a faster CPU The more complex jobs that use a large number of fonts will run faster with more RAM 40 Birmy Graphics Corporation Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution EPS files do not print EPS file are designed to be placed into other documents They cannot be processed directly by PowerRIP Place EPS files on a page using an application and print from that application Bitmap images or clip art looks jagged Bitmap images and clip art are processed for a set resolution and size When en larg
14. ams PowerRIP Delete Pend ing Jobs Click on delete pending jobs and select properties then program and click on close on exit and click OK then close Birmy Graphics Corporation Glossary Section 6 Several terms having special meaning within the context of this manual are listed below Application Applications are considered the programs that run on a computer We refer to applications in this manual as PageMaker Photoshop etc Bitmap Bitmaps are images preprocessed at a fixed resolution for a certain monitor or printer CPSI Configurable PostScript Interpreter This Adobe Level 2 PostScript interpreter runs on a PC rather than on a hardware peripheral device PowerRIP uses this interpreter to render a raster image CPU The processor inside the computer Pentium is faster than 486 EPS Ecapsulated PostScript This is a file type that may contain complex graphics It is designed as a universal format to include complex graphics in other applications Imaging Device A device capable of printing an image on a physical medium e g a printer imagesetter ink jet printer etc Interpreter A set of software functions to convert PostScript language operators and operands into a raster image PowerRIP uses the CPSI interpreter Network Ethernet cabling and required software to link computers to each other PostScript An interpretive programming language devel oped by Adobe used to describe the text graph
15. an be placed in other applications and still access the color rendering dictionaries if they are saved as LAB EPS or calibrated RGB EPS files RGB TIF and CMYK TIF files do not access the color ren dering dictionaries automatically if placed in other applications and then printed PowerRIP includes a means of automatically converting non calibrated RGB TIF into calibrated RGB TIF with a software switch Treat all RGB as calibrated This switch will convert most RGB color calls into calibrated color space automatically accessing the color rendering dictionary If for some reason you don t want to use this feature you can disabled it simply turning it off Windows 95 color profiles are included These ICM color files allow applications capable of ac cessing of accessing these files the capability of Birmy Graphics Corporation 35 adjusting printer colors When using these files the Treat all RGB as calibrated option on PowerRIP should not be checked CMYK files are usually created in a device dependant color space where you can adjust items to the par ticular printing condition of an individual printer rather than accepting the automatic options in a color ren dering dictionary RAM Requirements PowerRIP RAM requirements are dependent on the complexity of your printed pages We suggest that if your pages are taking a long time to pro cess that you increase your RAM PowerRIP will have performance increases with up
16. aster but print quality is de creased when it is selected Birmy Graphics Corporation Uni directional Resolution The printer prints right to left on all lines This mode reduces the possibility of banding white lines Resolution is a measure of the amount of detail that can be represented Resolu tion of printed images is measured in the number of dots per inch dpi The higher the number the finer the resolution Calibrated RGB Calibrated RGB references the 16 million Stochastic LPT possible shades of Red Green and Blue combinations commonly used in the computer industry to a specific standard CIE based ABC Application Defined utilizes optional third party color calibra tion software Stochastic screening is a random dot pattern as opposed to a fixed screen ruling Stochastic produces more tones and has better detail than fixed screen rulings The LPT port that the printer is con nected to NOTE For the EPSON Stylus the Stochastic Always feature should be selected Birmy Graphics Corporation 29 File Menu When you click on File you see the following pull down menu About R Exit Open log and Close log allows you to keep track of PostScript messages that occur during a print job When you select Open an open window will appear In this window you can select a file name for the log as well as a drive and a directory File Name Directories c powenip program powerrip
17. b in Windows 3 1 you must reboot your system Re enter Windows and click on the Birmy Delete Pending Jobs icon or go to File Manager and go to the directory c Birmy and delete the files in this directory Now restart PowerRIP Windows 95 To cancel in Windows 95 Hold down the Control Alt Delete keys to get to the Close Pro gram panel Select the Birmy PowerRIP task and then select End Task It will ask you again select end task to confirm your selection Then go to the Birmy Delete Pending Jobs icon and click on it or go to File Manager and go to the directory c Birmy and delete the files in this directory Now restart PowerRIP 38 Birmy Graphics Corporation Windows NT To cancel in Windows NT go to Print Manager Select the LPT Queue that we created when we loaded the PowerRIP Windows NT Drivers Then delete the files in this Queue Then run the Birmy Delete Pending Jobs icon by click on it Now restart PowerRIP Also you can double click on the desktop or hold down the Control Alt Delete keys to get to the Close Program Panel Select the PowerRIP task and then select End Task It will ask you to confirm your selec tion click OK Then run the Birmy Delete Pending Jobs icon by clicking on it Birmy Graphics Corporation 39 Troubleshooting Birmy PowerRIP Problem Printer prints out illegible type Section 5 or characters Solution On Windows 3 11 and 95 PowerRIP needs to print to a file In Print Man
18. ds your screen saver turned off It may interfere with the print pro cess See your Windows Users Manual if you do not know how to do this PowerRIP runs from Windows and may not run from special desktops like Navigator Click on the Windows icon in Navigator and then on PowerRIP Birmy Graphics Corporation PowerRIP Windows 3 11 Printer Driver Installation For Windows 95 or Windows NT see the appropriate section i For Windows 3 11 put the PowerRIP Windows 3 11 Printers Drivers Disk into drive A or B Then from Program Manager go to File Run then type A Setup or B if your drive is B Command Line AASETUP EXE O Run Minimized Click on OK then the Adobe Printer Installer will ask if you would like to read the Read Me file This file contains useful information about printing You can print this Read Me file later Select Continue The Adobe Printer Installer will complete its installation and ask to have Windows restarted Click on Restart When Windows restarts you should be at the Control Panel Click on the Adobe Printers icon ion 9 9 4 With the PowerRIP Windows 3 11 Drivers disk in drive A or B click on Drives and select that drive Then select your EPSON printer and click on install rogram ager i 5 Your printer should successfully install Now close and go to Control Panel and select Printers and select PowerRIP as your default printer 6 Now select PowerRIP and click on Connect
19. e A or B If drive B you must change to that drive designation Click OK Note You may need your Windows 95 CD or master diskette 1 0 to install the Windows 95 PostScript drivers 6 Select your printer and click Next 7 Then select print to File Creates a file on disk Click Next Add e rW Birmy Graphics Corporation 14 8 10 You may change the printer name if you prefer Make PowerRIP your default printer and click OK Do not print a test page PowerRIP will not print at this stage After selecting Finished you may be asked to install your Windows 95 CD or master diskette 10 for the Windows Drivers The program installation is now complete PowerRIP must be registered before you can use it Go to the section f you would like to share your printer on a network com plete step 12 and the section about printing on a network Birmy Graphics Corporation 15 When you print from an application it will ask you for a file name You can use almost any name but you must print to C BIRMY directory or the drive letter where PowerRIP was installed Print To File Output File Name C BIRMYWOB If you would like to share your printer on a network you just have to share on your computer the C BIRMY directory or the drive letter where PowerRIP is installed You should refer to your Windows user manual on how to do this Other users on the network that are given rights to your C B
20. ed they look very jagged but when made smaller will look better EPS files produce better quality Tiffs simple text files do not print Tiffs and simple text files are designed to be placed into other documents They can not be processed directly by PowerRIP Place these files on a page using an appli cation and print from that application White lines on output Screen savers cause the CPU to be interrupted during the printing process Turn off screen savers PowerRIP does not run from Navigator or other special desktops PowerRIP runs from Windows and may not run from special desktops like Navigator Click on the Windows icon in Navigator and then on PowerRIP s icon Birmy Graphics Corporation 41 Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution 42 PowerRIP receives a error Cannot open C BIRMY PRPCTEMP PS upon startup Run Delete Pending Jobs icon before starting PowerRIP This will delete and files in the Birmy directory Printout has misplaced images or type PowerRIP may need more RAM If you have other applications open print to the Birmy directory close your application then start or put more RAM in you system Delete Pending Jobs keeps DOS windows stays open after deleting jobs in Windows 95 This is defined under Windows 95 To exit dos window automatically you must make the following changes Go to Settings Taskbar Startup Menu Program Then select Programs Advanced Progr
21. ics and image content of a document Raster Image A sequential bitmap composing an image For each image pixel there is a corresponding device pixel Birmy Graphics Corporation 43 Render RAM RIP TIFF 44 The process by which PostScript language operators and operands are interpreted and a raster image is produced Random Access Memory Almost all PCs ship with 8 megabytes of RAM today and many with 16 MB as minimum You can add more RAM to most computers See your computer dealer for more information Raster Image Processor An application or device that renders images in raster format for an imaging device Tagged Image File Format This is a standard image file format consisting of labeled fields Birmy Graphics Corporation
22. ith Program Manager Other icons may also be present Z Ron Biray narida PowerH IP Double click on the Birmy PowerRIP icon You see the Birmy PowerRIP window shown below which has two menus File and Printer See the following two sections for descriptions of these options Birmy PowerRIP Birmy Graphics Corporation Printer Menu Select t i Options When you click on Printer The following pull down menu will appear Birmy PowerRIP Select Allows you to select different EPSON Stylus printers NOTE The display shows only the printer for which you purchased PowerRIP If you want to purchase support for additional printers call Birmy Graphics Corporation at 407 723 2893 BH Stet LORS Allows you to select A Media Type B Optional Printer Features C Resolution D RIP Options E LPT Port Birmy Graphics Corporation 07 Stylus Opti Printer Options Definitions Media Type Microweave Bi directional 28 Select the paper or other media you are printing on PowerRIP has color render ing Dictionaries to produce the maximum image quality for the individual Epson special paper stocks A printing method in which images are printed in finer increments to reduce the possibility of banding white lines and produce laser like images When this option is selected the printer prints one line from right to left and the next line from left to right Bi directional mode is f
23. loading from drive B type B SETUP C Run Minimized D Run in Separate Memory Space NOTE If you are loading from Windows 95 click on Start select Run then type A SETUP or B SETUP or use the Add software option in Windows 95 5 The PowerRIP program will now start to load and you see a Welcome screen Click on NEXT Birmy Graphics Corporation 6 The program will then ask you to choose the drive and directory you want PowerRIP to be installed on The default is C PowerRIP You may leave the default directory or change it if desired and then click NEXT Note If you choose not to install PowerRIP at this time click CANCEL to stop the installation 7 The program continues installing asking you for Disk 2 then Disk 3 and finally Disk 4 Click on OK after inserting each disk If you are not loading from the drive displayed you need to enter a new path before selecting OK Birmy Graphics Corporation 8 When Disk 4 has loaded the program will automatically create the group PowerRIP and PowerRIP icons for Windows NOTE If you are installing under Windows 3 11 the Uninstaller icon will not appear o PowerniP Common 71 LE Register Uninstaller PowerRIP 9 This completes the loading of the PowerRIP application Remove Disk 4 from the floppy drive 10 You must now install the Printer Driver using Windows Print Manager See the next section on how to do this Note PowerRIP nee
24. owerRIP just click on the PowerRIP icon PowerRIP will minimize itself at the bottom of the screen This is the mode in which PowerRIP runs If you double click on the Birmy PowerRIP icon at the bot tom of the screen it will maximize itself From this screen you can configure PowerRIP for resolution microweave etc PowerRIP will not pick up the jobs or files to print from in this maximize mode You must minimize PowerRIP to run automatically PowerRIP features like resolution must be changed from the maximized mode PowerRIP will ignore resolution request from the applications See Config uring PowerRIP for more imformation The PowerRIP defaults settings are Resolution 360 DPI Selected Always use Stochastic Screening Selected Treat all RGB as Calibrated Selected Plain Paper Selected Uni directional Selected Microweave Selected LPT1 Selected Birmy Graphics Corporation 2 Printing from Workstations on a Network After you have installed PowerRIP on the computer con nected to the EPSON Stylus all networked workstations running Windows for Workgroups Windows 95 or Win dows NT can print to PowerRIP providing the printer or directory is shared as shown on the previous pages The computer running PowerRIP under Windows NT can have application print sharing properties activated as shown on the previous section If you are running under Windows 95 you need to share the C BIRMY directory or the drive where PowerRIP was installed
25. rd drive before starting the installation of PowerRIP C Set up the EPSON printer according to the documentation that came with it Birmy Graphics Corporation i Operational Overview The following is an explanation of how a page is pro cessed by PowerRIP The Windows Printer Drivers supply the printer with codes that are needed to image a page PostScript is a coding method that is the standard for high quality graphic output When using the PowerRIP Windows printer drivers PostScript code is sent by Windows Applications like PageMaker to PowerRIP which processes it into a high resolution image and sends that image to the printer PowerRIP processes PostScript code and drives the EPSON Stylus series printer Text EPS tiffs and applica tions files must be sent to PowerRIP through applica tions like Pagemaker using the PowerRIP PostScript Driver in Windows when printing How PowerRIP works On Windows 3 11 and 95 Windows prints a file to the C BIRMY directory PowerRIP scans this directory for files and processes the files into an image that is then sent out the LPT port to the printer PowerRIP must be minimized in order to scan On Windows NT PowerRIP is set up so the Windows Print Manager creates a file in C BIRMY instead of the LPT port PowerRIP scans this directory for files to process After processing PowerRIP sends the bitmap image it created to the LPT port or LPT queue Note If PowerRIP is not installed
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