User guide

PowerRIP ScreenPrint
TM
Quick Start
This quick start guide covers the standard installation on Windows
XP/2000/2000 Pro/ 2000 Server. It covers the 4 most used printing
setups. See the User Guide (located on your CD) for additional
detailed installation information. After installing the software you
may go to Start/Programs/PowerRIP ScreenPrint/Documentation to
see a general manual for ScreenPrint, SilkScreen and ImageSet
RIP products.
Before installing, please close all running applications. Load the
printer driver from the printer manufacturer, have the printer con-
nected be able to print to the printer using the native driver.
Loading PowerRIP ScreenPrint
1. Insert the CD into the computer, the splash screen will give you
our choices. (If the splash screen does not appear, launch the
"setup.exe" application on the
CD’s root folder).
Install/Remove/Repair. This
option installs the main program
and all required files
View Installation Guide.
Open the installation instruc-
tions (this document). Requires
Adobe Acrobat
Connect workstation to
PowerRIP ScreenPrint Server.
This option is used when connecting workstations to PowerRIP
ScreenPrint remotely, as a client.
EXIT. Closes the installer application
1. Select Install
2.The Install Shield Wizard
will start, Click NEXT
3.The License Agreement
will be presented, review
then click NEXT
4.The Customer
Information screen will
include
User Name
Company
Serial Number
(this is your 16 digit Product
Code) Please fill in then click
NEXT
5.The Select Components is
next.Select your printer. If you
wish to generate TIFF files
and/or PDF files as well, select
these output devices as well.
Insure a check mark is next
to the printer selected. When
finished, click NEXT.
6.The select program folder will display, leave it as default. Click NEXT
7.The program will now be installed. Depending on the speed of your
system, this may take a few minutes.
8. After the system installs the program, you will be asked to install
the printer in the "Select Printer Entries To Create" screen Select your
printer (or Printers)Click Continue
9. A window will now tell you that
the printer has installed. Click OK
10. You must carefully select the
port the printer is connected to.
STOP if you do not know which
port the printer is connected to.
It could be USB001 or 002, etc.
Go to Start/Control Panel And
Open Printers and Faxes. Right
click on the “Epson Stylus Color
3000” printer and go to Properties,
then Ports. See what printer port
the Epson Stylus Color 3000
native driver is connected to and
use this for PowerRIP. Now select
the port, click CONTINUE.
11.This will finish the installation,
The final window will ask you to
click FINISHED before rebooting
the system, remove the CD.
Setting the Printer Driver
After the system restarts, go to the printer folder (Start > Settings >
Printers on Windows 2000 or Start/Printers and Faxes onWindows XP)
1. Right Click on the PowerRIP
Output Queue 1
2. Select PROPERTIES
3. Select the ADVANCED tab
4. In the driver window, use the arrow
(on the right side of the window) to
change the driver from PowerRIP
Stylus 3000 to the Epson Stylus
3000 driver for this port
Click APPLY, then OK
PowerRIP printer port drivers use
MicroSoft’s generic USB and parallel
code. Selecting Epson’s own printer
port driver can sometimes speed up
communication speeds over the
generic port drivers from MicroSoft.
This is especailly true on the Stylus
2200/2100 printers
Installing Validation
1. Start PowerRIP
Go to START > Programs >
PowerRIP SilkScreen
double click on PowerRIP
ImageSet selection
2. In the upper left corner click on Configure tab
3. Select Validate PowerRIP.
4.The PowerRIP Server Validation window will display a User Code
and provide a box to place the Activation Code. User codes are pro-
grammed to change randomly, so leave this screen open, so the
user code does not change with a reopening of the screen.
5. To obtain your activation code go to www.iproofsystems.com
Click on the get activation tab.
On the validation page select
ENGLISH as your language.
Fill in the registration form, click
SUBMIT FORM
Select the SilkScreen/ImageSet
product, and VALIDATE.
Type in your product code, and
user code, click SUBMIT.You will
be presented with a new window
and an ActivationCode.
6. Go back to the PowerRIP
ScreenPrint Validation window (step 5) insert the activation code in the
activation window. ClickOK
Testing PowerRIP ScreenPrint
1. Start PowerRIP ScreenPrint
Go to START > Programs > PowerRIP ScreenPrint
double click on PowerRIP ScreenPrint
2. Go To FILE > PRINT POSTSCRIPT FILE.
The open Dialog will display, you should be in the
PowerRIP ScreenPrint (PowerRIP Imageset) folder, if not find it
Highlight TRAIN.PS and click open.
3.The configure output window will display.Make sure the correct
printer and printer port is selected. Specfiy settings. Click OK
The file will process and print.
To print from applications, please refer to the documentation in the
Start/Programs/PowerRIP ScreenPrint/Documentation.
Printing Using Stochastic or Halftone Screening
PowerRIP ScreenPrint supports stochastic and halftone screening
technologies. Stochastic screening, the default for PowerRIP
ScreenPrint, is basic to all PoweRIP software. Halftone screening
starts at 30 line per inch (lpi) and goes to 150 lpi on the Stylus Color
3000.The back side of this Quick Start gives you a general overview of
how to do four basic print setups of the Properties/Advanced printing
options for screening, resolution, and media type of paper or film posi-
tives to generate output for proofs or film.