Manual of Power Plotter
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1. tion CD se lecting Aggung E rarai onipaia EP Veto on lina Manager in the window where you select the installation type You may create many Virtual Printers with different configurations which you can set for direct printing automatic mode or to store the files in the print queue of the RIP manual mode To do so open the printer configura tion and select the printer you want to configure and then select Configure to display the following window ia Configura PowerPlotter Printer x m Opzioni T Priorit kta bg E stampa Stampa e Archivia Archivia m Log Visualizza Interfaccia Attiva f Avanzato Non Compare Mai IC Test Programmi PowerPlotter 5 1 temp Powerplot m Configurazioni Annulla Conferma Server 127 0 0 1 nero90 Pe When you have set a valid configura tion in this case it is called Test and Print is set in the options your print job will be automatically moved to the active print job of the RIP and will be printed on the printer chosen in the configuration Test otherwise if you have set Store it will be placed in stand by and finally when you have set Print and Store it will be printed and kept in the print queue for eventual further printing If Power Plotter is set to print directly on a printer to file the RIP will auto matically generate a print file PR2. Indirizzo IP 0 0 0 0 Porta Nome Porta 9100 Jet Direc Aggiungi Cancella How to save a configuration from Power Plotter These settings can be saved as default configuration for an easier use afterwards or can be associated to a Virtual Printer see Virtual Printer To save the configu ration you can use the shortcut F6 or you can choose the relative item in the menu Configurations Save Current Configuration to save with a new name in the correspondent window coming up or you can choose it from the list and overwrite the old one and click Save E Salva Configurazione con nome X Nome Configurazione prova 2 configurazione per Cliente X prova 1 stampa con profilo per foto Notes for Canon Lite Drivers You have the following drivers on the in stallation CD Dye Inks W7200 W8200 Dye W7200 CAD W8200 Dye CAD UV resistant Ink W8200PG W8200PG Lite W6200PGL W6200 Lite For each printer model you have at least two drivers that distinguish for the support types to print on and the different color quality IMPORTANT Printing on CAD systems you can use the two special drivers named SERIE W DYE CAD or SERIE W PG CAD cre ated to offer a good printing speed and a discreet printing quality for technical use Those drivers have the appropriate pro files for plain paper and light coated pa per the first one is to be used on printer series W7200
3. e W8200D the other one on printer series W6200PG e W8200PG Only with the drivers W 7200 CAD W8200 Dye CAD W8200PG W6200PGL in some cases it might be useful to disable the profiles and set PURE BLACK manually in the Black Management menu to print real grey scales using black ink only not as a sum of all four colours this will ensure defined but not too wet blacks as they will not be printed with four colours and thereby thinner lines These four drivers are usu ally slower than the others ones If printing on a network you notice a par ticularly slow printing process you may decrease the resolution if possible and if quality is not too affected or you could try to connect the plotter with USB2 or Fire wire when available on your system Below is a list of the drivers currently existing for the above printers THE RESOLUTIONS INDICATED RELATE TO THE RIT RASTERISATION NOT TO PRINT JOBS AS THE PLOTTER ALWAYS PRINTS AT 1200 DPI PHOTO GLOSSY PAPER FAST 150 BEST 600 300 PREMIUM MATTE COATED COATED HR1010 NORMAL 300 BEST 600 300 BEST 600 300 FAST 300 NORMAL 600 300 NORMAL 300 GLOSSY CANVAS FAST 300 FAST 150 BEST 600 SEMI GLOSSY PAPER HEAVY COATED cPxx0s NORMAL 300 SGXX0S BEST 600 300 FAST 300 BEST 600 NORMAL 600 300 VINILE MATTE NORMAL 600 300 FAST 300 BEST 600 300 FAST 300 GLOSSY FILM NORMAL 300 W ARISTEA JR660SL BEST 600 300 FAST 150 BEST 600 NORMAL 600 300 GLOSSY PAPER GPXX0S NORMAL 300 FAST 300 BEST 600 30
4. the fol lowing procedure First connect and configure the Tcp Ip protocol of both Mac and pc in the network Then run the program called Desktop printers utility in Mac The first time the following window will be displayed or you will have to select a new one Adobers Sertventa m Conia LaserWriter 8 m C Here you have to select Printer LPR in the list and in the drop down menu select AdobePS or LaserWriter 8 only the method for enabling the printer will change in Select resources Continuing with the wizard clicking OK the following window is displayed Select the printer PPD and the printing path The PPD is on the Power Plotter instal lation CD under the Postscript printer mac folder The printer path is selected from the following interface Stampante Internet Specifica la stampante Internet sulla quale stampare nome domain o indirizzo IP Indirizzo stampante 192 168 64 68 Coda HPSOOO_PATINATA La stampante non pu essere verificata Enter the Ip address of the computer where you have installed power plotter in Printer address under the Queue item enter the name of a valid configuration previously saved on the RIP be careful to uppercase and lowercase characters in exactly the same way as written in Power Plotter with out spaces In this way the print jobs launched from Mac will be printed directly wit
5. 0 FAST 300 PLAIN PAPER NORMAL 300 WATER RESIST GLOSSY NORMAL 300 FAST 300 PAPER FAST 150 COATED IDRO BEST 600 BEST 600 300 BEST 300 300 NORMAL 300 FAST 300 CAD ECCO COATED BEST 600 NORMAL 600 HEAVY COATED LFM CPxS BEST 600 NORMAL 600 300 FAST 300 COATED HR1010 BEST 300 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 GLOSSY PAPER GPXX0S BEST 600 300 NORMAL 600 300 HIGH GLOSSY PROOFING PAPER BEST 600 PHOTO GLOSSY PAPE BEST 600 GLOSSY FILM BEST 600 NORMAL 600 300 FAST 300 SEMI GLOSSY PAPER SGXX0S BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 VINILE MATTE BEST 600 CARTA COMUNE BEST 600 NORMAL 600 300 FAST 150 W8200PG W6200PGL ADHESIVE MATT STRETCH VINYL Adhesive Vinyl BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 ALL ROUND MATT PAPER Coated Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 BACK LIGHT FILM Backlit film BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 FLAME RESISTANT CLOTH Flame Resistant Cloth BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 EXTRA MATT COATED PAPER Coated Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 HIGH GLOSSY PAPER Photo Glossy Paper 240g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 HIGH RES BARRIER PAPER Heavy Coated Paper 180g BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 HEAVY COATED LFM CPXS Coated Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 PH GLOSSY PAPER GPXX1R Photo Glossy Paper 185g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 PH SEMI GLOSSY PAPER SGXX1R Photo semi Glossy Paper 185g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 WATER RESISTANT HIGH GLOSS PAPER Photo Glos
6. 2200 canon Large Format W6200 canon Large Format W 8200P gf Canon Office Color N2000 f Canon rete Ww7200 F designjet 5500ps Q1252A Q EPSON AL C2000 Advanced HEPSON Stylus Photo 2100 EPSON Stylus Photo 950 HP designjet 100 AHP DesignJet 10P5 by HP Gh designjet 120nr C7791B Bue DesignJet 450C E A0 by HP Bue DesignJet 5000 42 by HP GHhp designjet 5500ps 42 P53 Soup DesignJet 800P5 42 by HP on cc800ps GHP DesignJet 800P5 42 by HP gjor C5300 PCL Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Use Printer Offline Use Printer Offline Use Printer Offline Ready Ready Ready Ready Unable to connect Ready Ready Ready Ready Ready Pia aod FOoOooO CO co oOCoKWmlUlcUWCCcOUmUCUOCCcUOCUCOUCOUCOUCOCUCUCOUCcOUCc OC CoO oO 8 Clicking with the right mouse button select Apple Talk Sharing a Canon Graphic Color W200 Canon Large F Open dy gf canon Large F dy 3 Set as Default Printer a Canon Office dy Printing Preferences Ef canon rete u y E y designjet 5500 REPSON AL C20 SSEPSON Stylus F SEPSOMN Stylus F 2HP designjet 11 Fause Printing Cancel All Documents Sharing Use Printer Offline dy dy dy Printer Offline Printer Offline SHP DesignJet aa SLE Printer Offline eho designjet f z dy SBHP DesignJet 4 ee PC MACLAN dy ue DesignJet 2 System Information dy Bhpdesignjet 55 dy bt DesignJet RE ble to connect i Designjet Bela dy f
7. ERE ATTENTAMENTE IM preaenes Cantratia Dewstudio Z i Hirata un CoMtrathe ibertonmente tra Putente una persona fi pimen aj e la Devsiudio ri prodotin a sebrar Dav ci sopra indicat I Prodata Prodotto iw fhe iem in the boar lona accept the leona inthe koenns ageserment we ae ea Once you have read the license agree ment click Next iF PowePiotier 50 Inatalthinld wizard Dastinatinn Fislien Ten Diek Mest ip Fatal ip they lodder of chek Change io ratal io s dierent oida pS Intal Poeier 9 0 toc Pray arr D aia P e tate 000 Change lt Back COC O a l In the next window click Next to accept the default installation directory or click Change to select a custom one jist PowerPlatber 5 0 bnelall heel Yad Dolup lypi Dikaba Pa peuo hea a Gh i r reels Pisope peleci a getup bpe i inched oi Presen Pioti Ful Giratione Stampact Gachors Sianga Custom m Ireialarme Perii rala etak re J c Choose the setup type then press Next The Power Printer Manager setup may be used on a different PC to create a Vir tual Printer to send your print jobs from any application to Power Plotter i FP Pi 90 Maibalik Valor el Ei Insiall Shield Wizard Complatad Thee brite hail waad hae or sijui withaled Posse totter 5 0 Tick Finds by e he g Congratulations Installation has been completed successfully press FINISH to end the setup procedure The f
8. N in the PRN_FILE folder in the program folder usually C Program Files Devstudio PowerPloitter These files can be sent to a printer with Direct Print see the relevant chapter in the program user manual Creating a PS File from Windows To generate a postscript file to be read by power plotter you have to print on the virtual printer from any program This Ps file is needed when you wish to print a file format not supported by Power Plotter so you have to convert it into a compatible format such as TIFF BMP JPG PICT TGA EPS PS PDF HP GL HP GL2 driver hp gl2 com Settings for prints from Autocad In some special cases it is not advis able to print directly from vector pro grams because of a low output quality e g for printers without optimized drivers or without HP GL2 translator patible up to the version for Designjet HP1050 plotter The best formats for photographic images and rendering are TIFF or JPG The TIFF format is the best since it main tains the best image quality also when ZIP or LZW compression activated and allows including your ICC profiles to keep colours matching to your screen if your screen is correctly calibrated The JPG format also preserves a rather good quality even giving some fault on highly contrasted borders with the advan tage of generating small files that can easily be stored and moved In both cases it is advisable to set a mini mum resolution of 60 dpi fo
9. Quick Start Installing and Using PowerPlotter For further information see the Manual of Power Plotter accessing it from the menu menu selecting the Contents item How to install Power Plotter To start the installation of Power Plotter insert the CD ROM into the CD drive and follow the onscreen instructions If the in Stallation procedure does not start auto matically launch the STARTER EXE file that can be found in the root directory of the CD Double click Windows Explorer then click the CD _ icon and then launch STARTER EXE To install a non demonstrative version you need to connect the dongle if it is not a LITE version to the parallel port or USB before starting the installation It is advisable to shut down your computer before connecting the dongle to the paral lel port while USB dongles may be con nected with your system on The following Windows Installer screens will be displayed you can accept default settings or change them based on your needs fe Powe Potter 5 0 bret alt hind Wiradi Ei Welcome to the inatallShreld wWirord for Power lotber 5 0 Tae le vl by Te rt ree c ori yal Eiga Ti _ Sek Hi WONG Tht piara ot piid b aa Les el PAST eS O ee ees Use the Back and Next buttons in every installation step to return to the previous step or to go to the next one Power Plotter 5 0 versione Full CONTRATTO DEVSTUDIO PER IL PRODOTTO SOFTWARE IMPORTANTE LEGG
10. ct the Adobe PS printer or LaserWriter and then link it to the PPD from the installation CD in the Postscript Print ers Mac folder to be unzipped In System X open the Print center and se lect Add Printer AppleTalk Also in this case you have to link the same PPD Note for using the Power Plotter Printer drivers The Virtual Printer described above is a PostScript printer and therefore has a slightly different handling compared to traditional Windows printers There are no settings concerning quality source of paper or destination You can only set paper format printing resolution and some specific PostScript features for example whether to include fonts or not in the print job option to be maintained ac tive Do not be change them if you are not an experienced user Usually when you print on a device from any Windows program you will have to set the print format corresponding to the paper format present in the printer Using the Virtual Printer the procedure is not exactly the same The best thing to do is to choose a paper format on the Virtual Printer correspond ing to the original dimension of the docu ment so that the RIP receives an image without borders that can be re organized as you like during the printing process If you do not find a corresponding format among the standards you have to select the customised format and manually in sert the values of width and height As regards resolution sett
11. dth and length There will be differ ent limits depending on the AutoCAD version in use Set dimensions and borders in the two interfaces above and click Next You should set the border limits to O as the RIP will set them automatically during the print process Clicking Next you will have to assign a oo name to the paper format and define a file where you want to save it in our case ETS it will be the file that defines the previously created f Printer Then set the format that will use these dimen sions whether they will be displayed Te aiee dea hter ck ts Bo foe at ee are a reem papm un rare mi le ded be Pr ii ad es pam ee How to print from Macintosh or other non Microsoft systems There are various possibilities to obtain these con ditions the most con venient is the use of a Win under the settings of Sheet of paper or Roll Now you can use this new type of printer driver and print your AutoCAD jobs with the powerful RIP D Ina a a ee armji 1 le DF ad reh aS ir Fin Pet te te Peri jaf paga oi e Another setting to be remembered is inside Power Plotter and relates to colour settings In fact Postscript files often contain both RGB and CYMK items but at present Power Plotter only recognizes one colour space at a time In AutoCAD images and data are certainly in RGB so you have to check that the image import
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13. ected print media Specifically it describes the paper setting that needs to be selected on the plotter when a certain type of print media is loaded From the item printers you can select the port on which Power Plotter will send the calculated print jobs The destination of the print job can be selected by browsing the printers already installed on the Stampanti x Stampanti di Sistema Indirizzi IP r EPSON AL C2000 Advanced g designjet 5500ps Q1252A S designjet 5500 Q1253A S Canon rete W7200 S Canon Large Format W8200P S Canon Large Format W8200 S Canon Graphic Color W2200 besttorip BESTColor XXL 6 Acrobat PDFWriter f Acrobat Distiller S 1Power syste m Q Dual2k PowerPlotter Printer Pc betty Smart Label Printer 200 P O r you ca n S PC CARLO NEW OKI C5300 PS enter the IP Ix Stampanti address of a net printer select the relevant port generally 515 for LPR and 9100 for Jet Direct Using the printer on a direct IP you should also assign ita name T so as to easily Annulla Gt find what it corresponds to without having to remem ber all of the network IP addresses Using the Windows print queue you work with the Windows spooler and the pro gram will guarantee a faster processing while when you use the direct IP address the program will process as fast as the printer is receiving the data Stampanti di Sistema Indirizzi IP
14. ed to the workspace of Power Plotter is RGB If not make sure that the image will be opened in the correct colour space using the PP configuration Image Quality Menu in Program Prefer heas portant benefit of this operation is that if you have to print lines with black ink you can disable the profile management and enable printing with 100 black in the Black Generation Panel When you use the pro files image colours will be more accurate When you launch a print job from Autocad a message will be displayed indicating that the printer port is already in use This happens as the PPPX port set on Autocad is the same used by Windows Power Plotter Printer This is only a reminder and will not affect the outcome you can simply ignore it If you want to avoid this reminder just use a PPPX port for Autocad with a number not used by Windows dows server or a MacLan PC as they en sure higher speed and better handling of the print process whereas printing from the LPR port has the advantage of being inte grated in Power Plotter and therefore there are no added costs Printing with LPR port integrated in Power Plotter Power Plotter has an internal active LPR 11 print server that needs not be config ured by the user This feature allows printing directly on the RIP from other operating systems that do not commu nicate with Windows The systems Supported are UNIX Linux Sun and MacOs 9 or later Under MacOs 9 you can use
15. gistration code you need to close and restart the program The program license is valid only for in stallation on one PC in the case you have to proceed with a new installation on a new PC or however after format opera tions or damage of your hard drive you can proceed with a new registration that will cancel the old code creating a new one By proceeding with the new registra tion the system will recognize you as a 3 user and it will ask you for a password which is the e mail address you gave dur ing the first registration Upgrading functions When you purchase an upgrade to a su perior version follow the instructions in side the new package from the interface of the software select the menu then the item PROGRAM PROTECTION en ter the new serial number in the appropri ate field and press Next now you can exit the program If you have a version with dongle upon the following reboot the program will start with the new functions already activated on the other hand for versions with software only protection you will have to proceed to a new regis tration on line or by Fax Replace the new code to the old one When you upgrade to a new version the old serial number is deleted from our da tabase and is no longer available Installing Adding Printer Drivers Now you need to install the printer drivers for your plotters printers Once you have activated the program the Power Plotter interface
16. hat you must request to DevStudio to definitely unlock the pro gram You have 30 days or 120 total run ning since the installation to request this number after which if you don t register the program will only work in Demo Ver sion limiting the print size and printing demo on every print job The registration number is unique for each machine you want to run Power Plotter on and you can request it on line 1 if the PC is connected to the Internet or by FAX 2 1 The on line procedure is certainly the fastest and allows receiving the correct registration number directly in your mail box this is a fully automated procedure Go to the www devstudio it website se lect SOFTWARE ACTIVATION and fol low the instructions on line To complete registration you must enter your personal data user ID Password and e mail ad dress you need to remember these data to download program updates drivers or profiles or optionally edit your personal data Min e Sesh intoreet rimp lt Pe F Be a e fpr j bet wit 9 OD De pe d ie iah ah E giai E ner 2 With the Fax procedure on the other hand you need to fill out the data sheet by clicking on the relevant button and send it using a Fax machine or you can fill out the form that comes in the program box To activate the program definitively with the proper re
17. hout any settings saved in the chosen configuration If an invalid name is entered the print jobs will be stored to the print queue and will be in standby waiting for a user s action The verify button checks the address typed in Clicking on ok will display a dialogue box where you can enter the name of the desk top printer to be used to print from Power Plotter Macintosh HD Scrivania Espelli Scrivania Registra stampante col nome Stampante su PG Now you can print on any printer supported by Power Plotter directly from any Mac pro gram For multipage print jobs use the same procedure as printing with the virtual printer Otherwise it is possible to print from Mac when you have configured a Power Plotter printer shared by a PC using a software like PC MacLan from Miramar or a Windows server NT 4 0 or later with printer adminis trator AppleTalk How to use PC MacLan to share printers in Mac platforms To do so create a virtual printer on the PC where you have installed PC MacLan Then take the POWERLO PPD file from the installation CD of Power Plotter printer folder Postscript printers mac and copy it to main folder of Mac LAN that should be under c program files Miramar pc MacLan for Windows 2000 or similar depending on version and language Then go to printer manager and select the virtual printer you want to move to Mac Canon Graphic Color W
18. imilar to the previous one where you can select the print queues managed with the server version of the program Installa Stampante Step 2 xj S Selezione una configurazione per la stampa d applicazione Scan to print Stampa Fotografica Click Continue to display the following window Installa Stampante Step 3 x T parametri impostati sono Power Server Pc marco Porta Virtuale PPP4 Configurazione hp5000_PATINATA Premendo continua apparir l installazione delle stampanti di Windows installare una nuova stampante Power Plotter locale sulla porta PPP4 driver della stampante sono contenuti ne Cd d installazione Annulla Indietro Continua gt gt gt The most important part is that displaying the Virtual Port Remember the name to use it in the next screen where you activate the installation procedure for Windows printers Click CONTINUE and follow the onscreen Windows instructions these instructions might be different based on the version in stalled on your system and when you are prompted to enter the printer port select that indicated in the previous window PPP5 in Our case The driver file may be found on your installa tion CD or on your system installation folder of your program PostScript printers choos ing the folder relating to the Operating Sys tem in use mE yoy may ue install this procedure on any PC using the RIP installa
19. ings you need to know that we are not referring to print resolution which will be set in the RIP configuration but about the quality with which the data is sent to the workspace of Power Plotter A higher value means higher accuracy of lines but at the same time bigger files and the risk of a printing failure or waiting much longer for the job to be finished Generally you do not need to change the default settings but if you have troubles quality or slowness related you may increase or decrease the relevant value
20. is displayed TP PP PPPPPPPATPPPPE estas ori Aisoluzione E00 e CT k oO _ 6 ipa ip Lye a Hj m it k os i E tae G re enera 7 7 L Sat cee Driver Oe TH T m mi oo aoe Fa erica stampante Selezionata a Q il F all a ia Canon Large Format W8200FP me ep Here you can select the drivers you need to install You could install all drivers but for greater simplicity we suggest that you only install those that are really necessary It is possible to add new drivers anytime you want you can use the present stan dard ones from the installation CD or up dated ones downloaded from our Internet site therefore you have to choose the button BROWSE and then find the path where the file had been saved before 4 Marca CANON Modello wE200PG Lite Tipo Carta HIGH GLOSSY PAPER Qualt MIGLIORE You may also remove an installed driver by clicking on the blue link next to the driver name in the setting window on the right this will open a new window with the list of installed drivers from which you can select those you wish to remove and then click on Remove Several printers also have the Advanced tab where you can set further printing features such as feed ing type roll or sheet tray print margins etc In the window nearby there is the i in formation button which displays useful information about the driver settings and the sel
21. ivers but our RIP This printer can be installed on any system and can be shared over a network you can install infinite copies with different settings This printer can be used for both printing from any program with default RIP settings previ ously saved to the Virtual Printer and for moving the file from your program to the RIP workspace and create a PS file see next pages A Virtual Printer appears on your system as any other printer Following the procedure de scribed here you will find a new printer in the printer folder of your system usually called PowerPlotterPrinter Win or Mac Program ral Se baam H a a Power Plotter aliia Ee pe pam ip e P Pep je p e alt zi eh OB fu jar Virtual Printer This means that you can print from any program directly on the printer set on the RIP automatic procedure or you can move the file to the workspace by loading it from the process list of the RIP which you find in the right side of the main interface manual pro cedure The picture shows a detail of the options available by right clicking on the print job coming from the application Processic STAMPA AFF VOLANTING POWER MARZO 2003 COR Stampa 4ppena Possibile e Cancella Stampa ppena Possibile e Archivia 7 Stampa Archiviata Importa Cancella Proprieta Gestion Processi Salva con nome Selecting to print automatically or manually from the interface of the Printer Manage
22. of the installed driver and deselect the printer pooling Also for the program to run correctly un der Windows NT 4 0 you need to install the latest Service Pack that comes with the CD 2 Special note for W2000 For this operating system you should up date at least to Service Pack 2 before you proceed to the installation DevStudio provides the most recent Ser vice Pack on the program CD Uninstall Procedure To uninstall Power Plotter proceed as follows Do not delete the program direc tory without having first uninstalled it Open Windows Start menu open the Settings menu and the Control Panel submenu Double click on Add Remove Program according to the operating sys tem you ll find different names such as Program Installation and locate the item related to Power Plotter click the Add Remove button and follow the in structions Now you can delete the Power Plotter directory How to save the list of print jobs after hav ing uninstalled the software When you delete the Power Plotter directory you will loose all report files and previews of print jobs lf you wish to save them simply locate the CODE MDB file and SAMPLES folder they should be in the folder c Programmi Devstudio Powerplotter and save them to another folder before proceeding to de lete You may replace them once you have in Stalled the RIP again Start up After having rebooted the PC you are ready to start the pr
23. ogram for the first time You will see three new icons on your desktop you will also find them in Start Programs Power Plotter Power Plotter starts the main program Direct Prints Starts a program which allows sending already d print jobs directly to the printer s for example PRN or PLT and manages the print job file queue Power Plotter Printer Manager allows creating and es managing the Power Plotter virtual printers Launching Power Plotter for the first time IMPORTANT REGISTRATION PROCEDURE This message prompts n you to select the language and the units At the end of your choice click Confirm The window above prompts you to enter the 16 digit serial number to activate the version the label is attached on the back of the CD case or somewhere on the box Attention Do not insert a WRONG se rial number anyway do not CONFUSE ZERO 0 WITH THE O LETTER O OTHERWISE THE PROGRAM WILL start as DEMO VERSION WITH LIMITED FUNCTIONS giving you the message DEMO VERSION THE SERIAL NUMBER FOR EACH PACKAGE IS UNIQUE Proteskere di Power Hotter bazio 200 Pere Paai XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX Dienai Trattat ei SO RANAN RAKAA Estendi Periods Trial OORE ineen Condon Ahhh arhar Resets ma WEE Aegrhat col Fax Apr When you insert the serial number the window will change showing a new box in which you have to enter the registration number activation t
24. okr csaoopa _ nanam OKI cs3000P5 Properties E PowerPlotber Printer l A PC MacLan window will be dis played x AppleT alk Name Power Ploter Type llasewrite File extension fps WA Remove Spooler J Destination x Windows Printer Folder AppleT alk Narr Printer PowerPlatter Printer PPP3 PPD File powerplo ppd 7 Cancel Options Help Assign a name select the ps exten sion check that the destination is Windows Printer that the printer name is the previously selected Power Plotter Printer and that in the list of the PPD files there is the power plo ppd name and that it is selected Click Options and select Send as is Alter amp send warning page Alter special characters Use BCP c TE Sendari Cancel Help Your printer will be displayed in the list of AppleTalk printers and will be visible in Se lect resources for OS9 or in Print center for OSX From the Power Plotter installation CD select the PPD once again now you can print from any Mac program directly to the RIP Printing by sharing Mac with NT4 0 server 2000 Server o 2003 Server Using a pc with Windows Server OS ver sion 4 0 sp6 or later you can create a Power Plotter printer that you can share in a Mac network using the Mac LAN protocol Usually in Windows Server Mac services are already enabled if not enable them through the Windows Servic
25. ollowing screen may be displayed at this point suggesting that you restart your PC before launching the program Restart your computer and then launch Power Plotter iz PowerPlotter 5 0 Installer Information Tou must restart your system for the configuration changes made to PowerPlotter 5 0 to take effect Click Tes to restart now or Ma if you plan to restart later Notes for the installation on Windows NT 2000 XP only for versions with Hardware Key The information below only refers to the installation on Windows NT 2000 XP To make sure that Power Plotter runs on systems with NT kernel NT4 0 W2000 or WXP you have to install the hardware key driver This procedure runs in auto matic when necessary but if the NO KEY INSERTED message is displayed proceed as follows login as Administra tor and launch SETUP EXE from the di rectory UTILITIES DRIVERS on your installation CD Reboot the system to complete the installation Notes for NT 4 0 As USB is not supported it only works with the parallel dongle To make the program access the parallel port you need to install a printer driver only if no printer is already installed otherwise ig nore the following procedure Login as Administrator then install a printer driver from the Control Panel The driver type is not important but an HP driver such as HP LaserJet is recom mended At the end of the installation open the Properties windows
26. printer from Windows This is due to a lack of the OS Win dows in the communication with pro grams of AutoDesk that fix a maximum size at 6m moreover the time needed to generate the file might be very long Using the ADI driver the maximum size is 15m x 914mm To create a PS printer from AutoCAD you have to select the Plotter Manager menu T IE Aube ADs Maie Codey DEAS LE cE Seti eii i bride Bo dai al Metter Lori CO Pe ae Pe rah sF ape SER Ab AD Potter Config J OL ee Le ED AuborlAD Pitter Config ae Le AE Aes AAD Mai oi LOSSY 16 57 and enable Add a Plotter Wizard add a plotter with a guided procedure SE j A Tir eS T Se oF re hers ip Dmi LF setae call a parigpamg jp m dhe Harit Dms jem p age by Pe eE pa ps eaa i T EE a sag iria WER DRE ee T a oe HE aer parank raa PCs Tha PC al aid as b bee iit m LE ba Regt ThS Hra ri Pasi ees ii Agan berfa due jiria iie a PO a POI es ee Ba aie in be rem phin coger Er mui ar reir Follow the instructions step by step and select My Computer local ma chine From the list of Models select Adobe gt PostScript Level2 Heee aj tae Lee mar ne See pal eed ei a et be ied pir eee in ei ters h a oie ie Sper Cha Tem ibe iem mii Dpape j pe bea papar i prea F H ee chee H Tea i rameni e eaa ginie jan ia nani oE Ba ia Che r paraj Ries Drs Popma 1 Doer b ag Tues d The next window will prompt you to import a previo
27. r final print size for photographic images with shades or gradual passages of colours a minimum resolution of 100 dpi for rendering or also images with very small details and highly contrasted borders and finally 150 dpi for text on white background When you are working on software gen erating vector or raster formats e g Corel Draw Adobe Illustrator Macromedia Freehand etc or with DTP programs Adobe PageMaker Quark Xpress etc it will be preferable to export the file in eps or in pdf These formats do not raster vector data as TIFF or JPG formats etc would do and this allows keeping high quality on text and line objects To be sure to have readable text objects you should export if possible a file using the command Include all fonts or otherwise convert text to curves you should know that you will get bigger files When you work on software not capable of generating eps files e g Microsoft Word the best thing to do is print the document to file using the postscript printer or there could be problems to complete prints due to large print dimensions driver limits or low printer memory For this reason it may be useful to print through the Power Plotter RIP In this case the procedure is similar to that described above up to the step of creating a Virtual Port PPPX with the difference that you have to use a PS printer from the ADI driver of AutoCAD instead of a PS
28. r is explained on the next pages Installation procedure for the Virtual When you start the program the following Printer interface is displayed To install double click the fol lowing icon on your desktop Siampaned Power Plime are E _ torte _ co Clicking the Add button 3 al Assiourar che Power Plother sia acorsiol Seno Commie sulcus road d Senet G lappi anor Piresorat Pete Competes cle ana e Cias Clicking on the button with the three dots you will open a network search window select the PC on which you have installed and running Power Plotter Otherwise you may type the PC name or if the PC you are looking for is the one you are currently working on se lect Local PC 127 0 0 1 internal ad dress called Loop back of the local machine and click Continue At the end of a quick search a window like the one shown below may be dis played a x Selezione una configurazione per la stampa d applicazione 2200 prova a3 Epson 2100 Automatico Epson 2100 WR2605 720 Configurazioni Code di stampa Annulla Indietro Continua gt gt gt Here you will find the list of default set tings this step will only occur if you have made settings from Power Plotter as previously described on the pages of this manual if not go directly to step 3 Now you can select one of the items or none and continue In the Print Queues tab there is a window s
29. sy Paper 250g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 WATER RESISTANT ART CANVAS Matt Canvas 360g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 W8200PGLite W6200 Lite ALLROUND MATT COATED PAPER Coated Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 BACKLITE ARISTEA 8935P Backlit film Aristea Code 8935P BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 PLAIN PAPER BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 ECCO COATED BEST 600 FLAG TEXTILE OUTDOOR Opaque Textile for outdoor BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 HIGH GLOSSY PAPER Photo Glossy Paper 240g BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300HIGH RES BARRIER PAPER Heavy Coated Paper 180g BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 HIGH RES GRAPHIC PAPER Opaque Adhesive vinyl BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 MATT COATED PAPER 9171 Coated Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 MATTE STRETCH ADH VINYL Adhesive Vinyl BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 PREMIUM ART PAPER Artistic Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 300 FAST 150 W RES ART CANVAS Artistic Canvas BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 WATER RESIST GLOSSY PAPER W Resistant Photo Glossy Paper BEST 600 NORMAL 600 FAST 300 Installing a Virtual Printer Direct printing from the application Printing of documents not compatible with Power Plotter The Virtual Printer is a printer that has to be installed on the Operating System from the Power Plotter installation CD it allows printing directly from your graphic program on the printer that you want not using the Windows dr
30. usly 10 configured file but since you do not have any you can skip this step zj H Pfam tes accede Pg aegis il at ey oma te Be jee Peien shinee iin Heil Po it Now you have to select the file destination port If you wish to send the file di rectly to Power Plotter select one of the Vir tual Ports PPPX you have cre ated before Now you have to name the printer and set its properties om CRT _ tow Set units and output resolution and click the Edit Plotter Configuration button To begin set the resolution from Graphics Si a high value for tane the colours and at least 600 dpi for resolution or even higher if the printer supports it on Vector Graphics for dithering set if possible a much diffused dither ing which gives you softer images other wise use one of those you have On Raster set all values to the right i e maximum quality ene Ora defect on AutoCAD 2000 it may happen that some images are moved to low resolution in this case try to close the program and repeat the print The second step may be setting a custom list of paper dimensions To do so select Custom Page Sizes customised dimensions and click Add A new Wizard will start to create de fault paper sheets that will be dis played in the paper list during the print process ea a new format Set dimen sions wi
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