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Nflight.bk Page ii Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers.
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Nflight.bk Page iv Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Contents Color Matching Press Simulations ColorSync 2.
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Nflight.bk Page vi Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Contents The printer is producing pages containing illegible type or characters 5-5 Images and type look bitmapped and jagged on your printouts 5-5 You see Font not found or Find font error messages (Macintosh) 5-6 One or more colors are missing in your printout or it prints in black ink only 5-6 Your printed output has white lines 5-7 Bitmap images or clip art looks jagged 5-7 Youre having trouble printing from PageMaker 6.0 or 6.
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction The EPSON Stylus® RIP software lets you use your EPSON Stylus COLOR or EPSON Stylus Photo ink jet printer as a PostScript® 3 (Macintosh® and Windows NT®) and Level 2 (Windows® 95/98) compatible printer. It reads the Adobe® PostScript files automatically created by the EPSON Stylus RIP printer driver, seamlessly converts them into raster images, and automatically prints them on your printer.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction Heres what you can use the EPSON Stylus RIP for: ◗ Printing documents with placed or imported EPS images ◗ Printing from complex PostScript-based drawing and publishing applications like Adobe Illustrator,® Macromedia® Freehand,® Adobe PageMaker,® QuarkXPress, and CorelDRAW ◗ Matching PANTONE® spot colors For all other printing applications, especially photography, use the standard, non-PostScript EPSON driver.
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Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction Windows System Requirements To use the EPSON Stylus RIP in either a standalone or peer-to-peer network environment, your system should include: ◗ IBM®-compatible PC with 486 or higher processor (Pentium® 133 MHz or higher recommended) ◗ Microsoft Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction For more information about installing and using the software, refer to this Users Guide, which contains the following: Chapter 1 tells you how to install the EPSON Stylus RIP on Macintosh computers and AppleTalk networks. Chapter 2 explains how to print with the RIP software on Macintosh computers. Chapter 3 tells you how to install the EPSON Stylus RIP on Windows computers and peer-to-peer networks.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction Where To Get Help EPSON provides technical assistance through electronic support services and automated telephone services 24 hours a day. The following tables list the contact information: Electronic support services Service Access World Wide Web From the Internet, you can reach EPSONs Home Page at http://www.epson.com.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Introduction Before you call, please have the following information ready: ◗ Product name (EPSON Stylus RIP) ◗ Product serial number (located on disk sleeve) ◗ Printer model ◗ Computer configuration ◗ Description of the problem You can purchase ink cartridges, paper, manuals, and accessories from EPSON Accessories at (800) 873-7766 (U.S. sales only). In Canada, please call (800) 807-7766 for dealer referral.
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM 1 Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh This chapter provides instructions for installing the EPSON Stylus RIP software on a standalone Macintosh or the print server Macintosh in a network. You can then install the PostScript printer driver and PPD (PostScript Printer Description) on any client Macintosh computers on your network, as described on page 1-8.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Checking the Printer Before you install the EPSON Stylus RIP software, follow the instructions in your printers setup guide and users guide to prepare your printer for use. Make sure you perform the following steps: ◗ If youll be using the printer in a typical network configuration (described in the following section), install an optional network interface card in the printer.
Nflight.bk Page 3 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Determining Your Configuration You can connect your printer and use Stylus RIP in three different configurations: ◗ Standalone ◗ Direct connection network ◗ Typical network The standalone or direct connection network configurations are recommended for best performance. Note: AppleTalk must be active in order to use Stylus RIP in all configurations, including a standalone system.
Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Direct Connection Network Configuration In a direct connection configuration (shown below), the Macintosh that is connected to the printer acts as the print server, with the EPSON Stylus RIP Server software installed on it. The printer is directly connected to the print servers printer, modem, or USB port (SC900/SP1200).
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Typical Network Configuration In a typical network configuration, both the print server and all client Macintosh computers are only connected to the printer via an Ethernet connection through an optional network interface card, with the EPSON Stylus RIP software (server or client version) installed on every computer.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Installing EPSON Stylus RIP on a Standalone or Print Server Macintosh Before you install the EPSON Stylus RIP software, disable all anti-virus or disk utility extensions, and shut down any applications that are running. Then follow these steps: 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus RIP CD-ROM in your drive. If necessary, double-click the Stylus RIP CD-ROM icon to open its window. 2.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh 6. Once your system has restarted, open the AppleTalk control panel by opening the Apple menu and choosing Control Panels > AppleTalk. 7. If using a serial connection, choose Remote Only from the Connect via pop-up menu. If visible, click the Options button and make AppleTalk Active. Set the connection method to Remote Only If visible, click here to enable AppleTalk 8. Close the AppleTalk control panel.
Nflight.bk Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Installing EPSON Stylus RIP on a Client Macintosh Once youve installed the EPSON Stylus RIP Server software on your print server, you can install the Client software on the client Macintosh computer(s) in your network. Before you install the EPSON Stylus RIP Client software, disable all anti-virus or disk utility extensions, and shut down any applications that are running. Then, follow these steps: 1.
Nflight.bk Page 9 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh 5. Follow the on-screen instructions, then click Quit when prompted to finish the installation. 6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each client Macintosh that will print with EPSON Stylus RIP over the network. Caution: Once youve installed the EPSON Stylus RIP Client software, dont move, modify, or delete any of the files or folders that were created on your hard disk, or the software may not work.
Nflight.bk Page 10 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh ColorSync 2.x Support For applications that support ColorSync 2.x, use the ICC profiles that are included with the EPSON Stylus RIP software. When you install the RIP software, these profiles should automatically be copied to the ColorSync profiles folder in your Preferences folder within the System folder. If the profiles are not copied automatically, you may need to copy them yourself.
Nflight.bk Page 11 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Every attempt is made to accurately match color values as closely as possible to the PANTONE spot colors. However, no color matching scheme can guarantee an exact match, due to environmental and other characteristics that affect how we perceive color. For example, a color that appears to be an exact match under incandescent room lighting may appear differently under fluorescent lighting conditions.
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM 2 Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Once youve installed the EPSON Stylus RIP software on your Macintosh computer(s), you need to set up your server or standalone Macintosh before you can start printing PostScript documents.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Setting Up the EPSON Stylus RIP Server Follow the steps below to set up the EPSON Stylus RIP Server software the first time you use it youll need to do this for both standalone and network configurations. 1. Make sure the Stylus RIP Server application has at least 20MB of RAM available. Open the Stylus RIP folder on your hard disk, and highlight the Stylus RIP Server icon.
Nflight.bk Page 3 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh If you connected the printer via a network interface card and use AppleTalk zones, select the printers zone and then select the printer name. Or use the Scan button to locate the printer on your network. Click OK once you select the printer and port. Note: If you change your printer connection later, you must reconfigure Stylus RIP for your new port.
Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh If youre using Stylus RIP on a standalone Macintosh, youre ready to start printing. If youre using Stylus RIP on a network, or if you want to set preferences, follow the steps in the next section to configure the software for your system. Configuring EPSON Stylus RIP Preferences To configure the Stylus RIP Server, follow these steps: 1. Open the File menu and select Preferences.
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh ◗ Job Priority This sets the resource priority given to either the Mac OS or the EPSON Stylus RIP Server application. Move the slide bar all the way to Stylus RIP if you are running it on a standalone server to increase RIP performance. ◗ Raster Spool Mode This checkbox turns the raster image spooling feature on and off the default setting is off.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh To select the proper PPD file and Chooser settings, follow these steps: 1. Turn on your EPSON printer, and if it is connected to a network, turn on the print server Macintosh. 2. Double-click the Stylus RIP Server icon in the Stylus RIP folder to start the EPSON Stylus RIP Server. (In a networked environment, the Stylus RIP Server icon is located on the hard drive of the print server Macintosh.) 3.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh 4. From the Chooser, click Setup to select the PPD file that corresponds to your EPSON ink jet printer. The following dialog box appears: 5. In most cases, clicking the Auto Setup button will automatically select the correct PPD file. Click Auto Setup. If your printer model appears at the top of this dialog box, click OK. 6. If your printer model is not displayed, click Select PPD.
Nflight.bk Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Now youre ready to print a PostScript document from the print server or a client Macintosh. See the following section for printing instructions. To make starting Stylus RIP easy and to allow you to drag and drop PostScript files for printing, create an alias of the Stylus RIP Server program on your desktop. Click the Stylus RIP Server icon and select Make Alias from the File menu.
Nflight.bk Page 9 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Sending the Print Job To print a document from an application, follow these steps: 1. Open the document you want to print in your application. 2. Select Page Setup from the File menu. The Adobe Page Setup dialog box appears. Set the print options for your document and click OK. 3. Once you have set up the page, select Print from the File menu.
Nflight.bk Page 10 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Once you click Print, the application sends the print job to the Stylus RIP Server software for processing and printing. Setting Print Job Options Print job options are divided into categoriesyou access these different categories of options via a pop-up menu that is initially labeled General.
Nflight.bk Page 11 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh 2. Choose one of the following Print Color settings: ◗ Black and White Select this setting for faster printing of text and/or line art in black only. ◗ Color/Grayscale Choose this setting for printing without CMYK color correction. ◗ ColorSync Color Matching Choose this setting for color management with ICC profiles.
Nflight.bk Page 12 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh The profiles use terms defined as follows: ◗ 360P_360: 360 dpi Ink Jet Paper ◗ GF_1440, GF_720: Glossy Film at 1440 or 720 dpi ◗ GP_1440, GP_720: Glossy Paper at 1440 or 720 dpi ◗ PQP_1440, PQP_720: Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper at 1440 or 720 dpi ◗ EPSON_DIC: Japanese press standard ◗ EPSON_Euro: (Euroscale) European press standard ◗ EPSON_SWOP: (Specifications for Web Offset Publications) U.S.
Nflight.bk Page 13 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh 2. Set the Ink option to CMYK (the default setting) for color or Grayscale. 3. Choose one of the Press Simulation settings if you want your colors to more closely match those of SWOP printing devices or other standards. If you use one of the press simulation options, you must choose the corresponding profile (see page 2-11), and print on coated or photo quality media.
Nflight.bk Page 14 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Starting the EPSON Stylus RIP Server Software Automatically Note: Because the Stylus RIP Server software uses a lot of system resources, you may want to start it automatically only on a print server that is dedicated to printing PostScript documents.
Nflight.bk Page 15 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Drag and Drop Printing Drag and drop printing allows you to create PostScript print job files and then drag them to the RIP Server when youre ready to print. During drag and drop printing, you can close all other applications so your Macintosh can print as quickly as possible with the maximum system resources available. You dont even have to have the Stylus RIP Server application open before you start.
Nflight.bk Page 16 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Managing Print Jobs While your job is printing, the Server Information window displays the following information: (If you dont see this window, select Show window from the PostScript menu.) Page currently printing Click here to cancel a print job. Percentage of current page complete Percentage of current job complete You can use the information in the window to track the progress of your print job.
Nflight.bk Page 17 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Macintosh Using the Stylus RIP Monitor If youre running the EPSON Stylus RIP on a network, you can use the Stylus RIP Monitor to manage your print jobs from each client Macintosh. You must have Raster Spool Mode turned on to use the Stylus RIP Monitor. Follow these steps to turn on Raster Spool Mode: 1. Choose Preferences from the File menu of the Stylus RIP Server software. 2. Check Raster Spool Mode and click OK. 3.
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM 3 Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows This chapter provides instructions for installing the EPSON Stylus RIP software and accompanying PostScript driver on your Windows 95/98 or NT system. Even if you already have other PostScript printer drivers, you need to install AdobePS 4.2 (Windows 95/98) or 5.0 (NT 4), which is included on the EPSON Stylus RIP CD-ROM. AdobePS 4.2 and 5.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Checking the Printer Before you install the EPSON Stylus RIP software, follow the instructions in your printers setup guide to set up your printer for use, making sure you perform the following steps: ◗ Load paper, install ink cartridges, and allow your printer to complete its entire ink charging cycle. ◗ Connect the printer to your computer via a parallel cable and your computers LPT1 port.
Nflight.bk Page 3 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Follow these steps to install the RIP and driver on your computer: 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus RIP CD-ROM in your drive. The install program starts automatically. If it doesnt start automatically, double-click My Computer. Then double-click the Stylus RIP icon. 2. Choose your printer model from the Installer dialog box and click Install.
Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 4. Once the EPSON Stylus RIP files are installed on your system, you see a dialog box telling you that setup is complete. Click Finish to complete this portion of the RIP installation. Once the EPSON Stylus RIP Installer is finished, the Adobe PostScript 4.2 or 5.0 setup program starts automatically. Follow the steps in the next section to install the PostScript driver.
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 2. At the first setup screen, click Next. (You can click Read to display the Readme file at this point if you wish.) 3. The program then asks if you want to copy the Setup program to your hard disk. Select No and click Next. 4. At the Printer Type dialog box, choose Local Printer, then click Next. 5.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 6. At the Local Port Selection dialog box, highlight one of the following: On a standalone system or print server, select Stylus RIP: EPSON Stylus RIP and click Next. On a client computer, select File and click Next. For client computers, select FILE For standalone systems or print servers, select Stylus RIP 7. At the Add Printer dialog box, click both No radio buttons.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 9. Once the PostScript driver is installed, the Setup program asks if you want to add another PostScript printer to your system. Click the Exit button to stop adding PostScript drivers. 10. When you see a message that installation is complete, click Yes to close the Setup program and restart the system automatically.
Nflight.bk Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows To set up EPSON Stylus RIP for this networked environment, install the RIP software on the print server as described in the previous section, and then install only the PostScript printer driver on the client computers on the network. Follow these steps to only install the PostScript printer driver on client computers: 1. Insert the EPSON Stylus RIP CD-ROM in the drive. The install program starts automatically.
Nflight.bk Page 9 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Color Matching During the EPSON Stylus RIP installation, the ICC profiles and PANTONE color table for your printer are installed in the Stylus RIP utilities folder. ICC Support For Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4 ICM support, use the ICC profiles that are included with the EPSON Stylus RIP software. (Your application must also support Windows color matching to use ICC profile information.
Nflight.bk Page 10 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Installing EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows PANTONE Color Support PANTONE professional color palette files for your printer are included with the EPSON Stylus RIP software. These files can be read directly into most PANTONE-licensed applications so you can have printer-calibrated versions of PANTONE colors. The colors are calibrated to use Stylus RIPs error diffusion halftoning on EPSON coated paper and photo-quality media.
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM 4 Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Once youve installed the EPSON Stylus RIP software on your computer(s), youre ready to print in PostScript. To print with the EPSON Stylus RIP, you need to start the RIP, set printing options, print from your application, and let the RIP process your print job and send it to your printer.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Starting EPSON Stylus RIP To start the EPSON Stylus RIP software, click Start, Programs, Epson, and click Stylus RIP. The program checks your printer, and then opens the Stylus RIP window: This window displays the progress of your print job(s) as they are processed and allows you to cancel them. For more information, see page 4-9.
Nflight.bk Page 3 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Printing with the Default Options Printing with the RIP is a straightforward process if you dont need to adjust printer or printout options, and are printing from the computer the printer is directly connected to. To print with the RIP with the default options enabled, make sure your printer is on, and follow these steps: 1. Open a document and choose Print from the applications File menu. 2.
Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Printing and Setting Printer Options You can change several printer options, such as paper size and type, printer resolution, or specific PostScript options before you print. Note: The actual Properties dialog boxes differ between Windows 95/98 and Windows NT, but each allows you to change the same options. Follow these steps: 1. Open a document and choose Print or Print Setup from the File menu. 2.
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows The Paper tab is the default tab, and is where you can specify the desired paper size, layout, orientation, paper source, and copies for your print job. The Graphics tab lets you specify any PostScript scaling or special effects. (The Resolution menu has no effect.) The Device Options tab, shown below, lets you select the type of media (paper) and desired resolution, ink color mode, and press simulation mode.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows In Windows NT, all printer and print job options are under the Advanced tab via a menu tree: Click here to expand or collapse a section of the tree Choose the feature you want to set here Change the setting here To change options in both the Windows 95/98 and Windows NT Properties dialog boxes, the procedure is essentially the same.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Selecting Device Options/Printer Features The Windows 95/98 Device Options tab and the Windows NT Printer Features section let you set up your document for printing at different resolutions, on different media types, and with different PostScript effects. You can change the following printer options: 1.
Nflight.bk Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows ◗ Euro (Euroscale, European press standard) ◗ DIC (Japanese press standard) ◗ Off (the default setting) Note: The color of printouts can look different depending on lighting and paper selection.
Nflight.bk Page 9 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Managing Print Jobs While your job is printing, the following information appears in the Stylus RIP window: Name of file currently printing Page currently printing Percentage of current page complete Percentage of current job complete Print jobs in the queue If a problem occurs during printing, youll see the error indicated in the Message area.
Nflight.bk Page 10 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Batch Printing In addition to having the RIP process print jobs as soon as they are created, you can also create print jobs and hold them in a queue so you can print them at a later time. This allows you to close other applications, permitting your computer to print as quickly as possible with the most system resources available.
Nflight.bk Page 11 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Network Printing By taking advantage of the EPSON Stylus RIPs ability to automatically scan a directory for print jobs, you can use the RIP to share your printer over a Windows peer to peer network. All you need to do to print over the network is enable file sharing for the RIPs print queue directory, and then send print jobs to this directory via the network.
Nflight.bk Page 12 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 2. Locate the folder where print files are queued for processing. Though the default location is C:\Windows\Temp on the print servers hard drive, this can be changed. See page 4-15 for details on viewing or changing the print queue directory location. 3. Right-click the specified print queue folder icon and select Sharing from the pop-up menu. 4.
Nflight.bk Page 13 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 4. Select a Drive Letter (such as R) and check the Reconnect at Login checkbox. Click OK. Sending Print Jobs from Client Computers Once the shared print queue directory is accessible from a client computer, you print to the RIP by sending print files to the mapped drive letter. Follow these steps to print to the RIP from a client computer: 1. Open a document and choose Print from the applications File menu. 2.
Nflight.bk Page 14 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows 4. From Windows 95/98, choose the drive letter to which you mapped the shared print queue from the Drives menu. For example, if you mapped the shared print queue directory to R, choose R. Enter a filename for the print job in the File name box with a .ps or .prn file extension.
Nflight.bk Page 15 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows Configuring EPSON Stylus RIP You can configure the following two preference settings for the EPSON Stylus RIP software: ◗ For convenience in printing from your applications, you can change the default folder where Stylus RIP looks for print files to process. ◗ If you frequently need to print multiple copies of the same document, you can increase your printing speed by turning on Raster Spool Mode.
Nflight.bk Page 16 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Printing with EPSON Stylus RIP for Windows ◗ Type a new path for the Temp Directory if you want to change the folder where the RIP looks for print files to process. (You must first create this folder in Windows.) ◗ Click Raster Spool Mode if you want to enable it. Type a path for the raster files to change the folder where Stylus RIP saves them (if you have more space on another drive, for example).
Nflight.bk Page 1 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM 5 Troubleshooting This chapter describes solutions to some of the problems you might encounter with the EPSON Stylus RIP software. Many problems can be solved by making sure the printer is turned on and properly connected to your computer or network before you start the Stylus RIP software, so check these conditions whenever you encounter a problem.
Nflight.bk Page 2 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting ◗ Make sure youre using the correct PostScript driver for your printer (included on the EPSON Stylus RIP CD-ROM). ◗ If youre working with scanned images, check the scanner software settings. ◗ Try cleaning the print head with the utilities provided with your printer, then print a few lines to check your output. See your printer users guide for instructions. ◗ Run the print head alignment utility using coated ink jet paper.
Nflight.bk Page 3 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting You see a memory or VM error message (Macintosh) Possible cause Solution Virtual memory is not turned on. Select Control Panels from the Apple menu, then select Memory Control Panel. Click the On button in the Virtual Memory panel. Not enough memory is allocated to the Stylus RIP software. Quit Stylus RIP and select the Stylus RIP icon on your desktop. Select Get Info from the File menu.
Nflight.bk Page 4 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting Your saved files dont print (Windows) Possible cause Solution Youre not saving your PostScript print files with the .ps or .prn extension. When you print from your application, make sure you save your PostScript print files with the .ps or .prn extension. Stylus RIP only processes files with one of these two extensions in their names. See page 4-14 for instructions. Youre not saving your PostScript print files in the right folder.
Nflight.bk Page 5 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting The printer is producing pages containing illegible type or characters Possible cause Solution The printer is not receiving and processing PostScript code. Click Cancel in the Information window on a Macintosh or Cancel Printing in the Stylus RIP window on a PC to stop printing. If this doesnt work, turn off the printer to avoid wasting paper.
Nflight.bk Page 6 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting You see Font not found or Find font error messages (Macintosh) Possible cause Solution Youre allowing Font Substitution in your application. Turn off Font Substitution in your applications Page Setup dialog box. Youre not using PostScript fonts. You must have PostScript compatible fonts (not just screen fonts) loaded on your system and selected in your application to be able to print with the RIP.
Nflight.bk Page 7 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting Your printed output has white lines Possible cause Solution Your screen saver is interrupting the printing process. Turn off your screen saver. The print head nozzles are clogged. Run a self test on the printer and clean the print heads if necessary. See your printer users guide for instructions. Bitmap images or clip art looks jagged Possible cause Solution You are enlarging the images. Try printing the images in a smaller size.
Nflight.bk Page 8 Thursday, April 22, 1999 5:02 PM Troubleshooting Your printout has misplaced images or type Possible cause Solution Your system doesnt have enough memory to run Stylus RIP. Print from your application without starting Stylus RIP. Then close your applications before you run the EPSON Stylus RIP software. Add RAM to your computer. Printed images are clipped at the edges Possible cause Solution You selected the wrong paper size in Page Setup or Print Setup.
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