User`s guide

Adding a Printer Entity and

Hot Folder tutorial

The previous 2 sections describes the operation of the Hot

Folder Configuration and the Printer Entity Configuration

dialogs. This section will walk you through the creation of a

printer entity/hot folder to help you understand how they work

together.

In our example, PowerRIP ImageSet was installed with

support for the Epson Stylus Photo 1290, the Epson Stylus Pro

9600, the TIFF Generator and the PDF Generator.

Lets say we want to add a printer entity that, when printed

to, outputs to the Epson Stylus Photo 1290, ignoring the job

settings at print-time and processing every job for “Professional

Media Photo Paper” at 1440x720 dpi using 85-line halftone

screening. We’ll call this printer entity “Epson1290Halftones”.

The object in this scenario is to have a printer entity that will

always print the same way regardless of the print settings the

user specified when he/she printed the job. This will also leave

us with a hot folder where you can deposit virtually any

PostScript or PDF file and have it print on the 1290 using the

settings we “hard-wired”.

Create the hot folder

The first step is to create the hot folder. We like to keep all

the hot folders in the “PowerRIPHotFolders” folder. This is just

to keep things organized... a hot folder can be anywhere on the

server system (the machine running PowerRIP ImageSet Server)

or even on the network.

Open the “configure inputs” dialog by clicking the

“Inputs” button on the main dialog.

Click Add, the “Choose Hot Folder” dialog will appear:

You will notice that the dialog comes up by default to the

“PowerRIPHotFolders” folder. Lets give the folder the name

“EPSON1290HRHT”. Type that in the Folder Name box:

Click OK

A dialog will apear asking you if you wish to create this

folder (assuming the folder doesn’t already exist). Click Yes.

The folder is created and added to the hot folders list.

With the new folder selected, lets set the output options.

First, set the target output device, in this case, the Epson 1290. In

the “Intended Output” section select the EPSON Stylus Pro 1290

as the printer and the appropriate output queue. In this case,

PowerRIP Output Queue 1 (which is pointed at the port the 1290

is connected to). If you want to assign a higher priority to the

jobs that arrive in this hot folder, you may change that now by

using the “Job Priority” settings.