Roland COLORCHOICE® for ColorCAMM for Macintosh Version 3.1 User Guide Thank you very much for purchasing the PC-600. • To ensure correct and safe usage with a full understanding of this product’s performance, please be sure to read through this manual completely and store it in a safe location. • Unauthorized copying or transferal, in whole or in part, of this manual is prohibited. • The contents of this operation manual and the specifications of this product are subject to change without notice.
Welcome .............................................................................................................. 4 System Requirements .......................................................................................... 4 Macintosh Installation ........................................................................................... 4 Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh) .................................................................. 8 Outputting a Test File ...............................
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Welcome Welcome to the documentation for the Roland COLORCHOICE Software. We believe that you will find the information useful and the software easy to learn. System Requirements Minimum Recommended Recommened Processor 90MHz 601 Power PC 233MHz G3 Power Macintosh RAM 64MB (virtual memory set to 128MB) 128MB or more (virtual memory set to 256MB) Install Space 100MB 100MB Working Disk Space 1GB or more 2GB or more for storage Operating System Mac OS 8.1 or later Mac OS 8.
You are asked to re-enter your User ID. 6 Type in “1000” again, and then click OK. The Installation Options dialog appears. 7 Click OK. The next screen prompts you for the type of installation and the location to which you want to install the software. 8 Accept the default selection of Easy Install and specify the location to which to install the software. Click Install when you are finished. A status window displays the progress of the installation.
15 Double-Click on the AdobePS Installer Icon. The Adobe Printer Driver installer is launched. 16 Click Continue. 17 If you accept the terms of the License, click Accept. The next window prompts you for a location to install the Adobe PostScript Installer. 18 Select a location and then click Install. The necessary files are installed to the location that you specified.
After the installation finishes you are asked whether or not you want to restart your computer. 19 Click Restart. The software installation is now complete. Before printing, however; you will need to add a setup and then go to the chooser and select the appropriate printer description. 20 Double-click the RCC for ColorCAMM icon to start the software. The Add Setup dialog appears. 21 Select your printer in the list and then click Next.
25 Click Setup. You are prompted to select a PPD (PostScript printer description). 26 Locate the PPD for the output device you are using (AmPC600.ppd), highlight it. Then click Select. You will find it in the System Folder/Printer Description folder. Uninstalling the Software (Macintosh) Follow these steps to uninstall the Roland COLORCHOICE Software from your Macintosh. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Quit the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, if it is still open. Drag the RCC for ColorCAMM Folder into the Trash.
Getting Started To start the Roland COLORCHOICE Software, double click the icon labeled RCC for ColorCAMM located in the RCC for ColorCAMM Software folder. The Print Monitor displays when you start the software. You can control every facet of job management from the Print Monitor. The Print Monitor is essentially a queue, listing all the files that are waiting to be printed. Jobs appear in the queue in the order that they were recieved.
Media Size- Select a media size that is currently loaded into your printer. You can specify custom media sizes by selecting other from the list and then editing the Height and Width values. Margin- Specify custom margins, if desired. Send- You can choose to send the Print and the Contour, the Print only, or the Contour only. Port tab The Port tab contains a list box for specifying the port to which your output device is connected.
Screen - The default settings will produce the best quality possible. We do not recommend to change these settings, since changing them can cause uneven colors. Perform Color Correction- Checking this setting makes incoming jobs use the color correction settings- ICC input and output profiles that are explained below- of Roland COLORCHOICE RIP Software. If this setting is not checked, incoming jobs are assumed to already have color correction.
Color Mode- Select either CMYK, CMYKOrGr, CMY or Grayscale according to the ribbon set in your printer. Also you can select between Resin and Wax ribbons. • • • • CMYK is four-color printing with Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black ribbon. CMYKOrGr uses Orange and Green colors in addition to basic CMYK colors. This mode produces more saturated orange and green. CMY uses only three basic colors, without Black ribbon. This mode offers you almost the same quality as CMYK, but with a lower running cost.
Cut tab The Cut tab displays cut settings. Resolution- Changing this value from the default is not recommended. Passes- Specify how many times the blade will move over each line. Curve Quality- Select how smooth you would like the curves to be. Cutter Driver Options- Clicking this button launches the Cutter Driver Options dialog box, shown below. Custom Head tab None- When this mode is selected, Roland COLORCHOICE will not send any settings regarding the cutting operation.
Color Adjust tab The Color tab displays settings associated with the color quality of the image. Using the sliders on the tab, you can adjust the image quality. The sliders that appear vary, depending on which color mode is selected on the Print tab. In all modes, you can adjust the overall image contrast using the Contrast slider. The modifications that you make on the Color Adjust tab do not affect the original file.
3 To send a job to the printer, select the job from the print queue and then select Print from the File menu. The job prints. In addition to specifying how a job will print using the Printer and Job Properties dialog boxes, you can access a number of print settings directly from your design application. These settings are usually accessed by selecting Printer Specific Options from any application’s ‘Print’ dialog box.
Deleting Jobs from the Print Monitor You can delete jobs or groups of jobs from the Print Monitor by selecting them and then clicking the Delete button from the toolbar. 1 2 Select the job or jobs that you want to delete by selecting them in the Print Monitor window. Click the Delete button. You also can click File>Delete once jobs are selected. Printing Jobs Once jobs are in the Print Monitor, you can select individual jobs or groups of jobs for printing.
Saving Jobs in Native Format Once a job has been printed, you may want to save the RIPed file so that you can reprint it without having to RIP the file again. Saving a file as Native format, with a .prt extension, allows you to save RIPed files for reprinting. 1 2 Select the job that you want to save as in Native Format by selecting it in the Print Monitor window. Click the Save a job button. You also can click File>Save to save a job in Native Format.
Setting Job Properties Job Properties offer an additional level of control. You can access Job Properties by clicking on a job in the Print Monitor, and then selecting Job Properties from the File menu. Many of the settings in the Job Properties tabs are also contained in the Setup Properties dialog. When you change a setting in the Job Properties dialog box, it overrides any setting you may have made in the Setup Properties dialog.
Send - you can specify to send the print and the contour, the print only, or the contour only. The Print tab The Print tab settings are identical to the settings on the Print tab of the Setup Properties dialog box. See “Print tab” on page 10. The Cut tab Use the Cut tab to specify the number of passes that the blade makes over each path and to access Cutter Driver Options., if desired.
The Color Adjust tab The Color Adjust tab settings are identical to the settings on the Color Adjust tab of the Setup Properties dialog box. See “Color Adjust tab” on page 14.
Advanced Printing Procedures If your program is not listed, refer to a section on a similar program. Illustrator 7 ColorSync 2.x and Kodak Digital Science must be installed when using Illustrator to create CMYK files. 1 From the Roland COLORCHOICE Print Monitor click Setup>Setup Properties. Then click the Print tab. 2 Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it, and that correct output profile and rendering intent are set. Click OK to close the Setup Properties dialog box.
7 8 Choose a standard paper size in the Paper field. Select Custom Page Default from the pop-up menu if a custom page size is required, and enter your custom page size. Click the Add button. 9 Select Page Attribute from the pop-up menu. Select the defined Custom Page in the ‘Paper’ field. 10 Click OK to AdobePS Page Setting dialog. Click OK to Document Setup dialog. 11 Go to File>Color Setting and check ‘Simulate print colors on display’ if you want your monitor to soft-proof CMYK output.
•Check Force Fonts to Download. 14 Select Printer Specific Options from pop-up menu. If you want the file to be printed automatically select Print in the After Sending option. If you want to verify the print mode and profile settings before printing the file, select Hold. Select Hold in the After Printing, if you want to keep the file in the Print Monitor. 15 Click Print to start printing. PageMaker 6.5 ColorSync 2.x must be installed when using PageMaker to create CMYK files.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 From the Page field select your paper size or choose Custom for a custom page size. If you choose Custom page size, enter the custom size in the height and width fields. Select your printer’s resolution as the Target Output Resolution. If it is not available, select the next highest value. Click OK. Go to File>Preferences>General. Click the ‘CMS Setup...’ button. From Color Management select OFF. Click OK to Color Management System Preferences.
5 In Photoshop go to File>Page Setup. From the ‘Paper’ field select your page size. 6 Select Custom Page Default from the pop-up menu if a custom page size is required, and enter your custom page size. Click the Add button. 7 Select Page Attribute from the pop-up menu. Select the defined Custom Page in the ‘Paper’ field. 8 Select Adobe Photoshop from the pop-up menu. Click the Screen button. 9 Check the box for ‘Use Printer’s Default Screen’s. Click OK for Halftone Screen dialog.
10 Click OK for Adobe Page Setting dialog. 11 Go to File>Print. Select your printer in the ‘Printer’ field and select the page you want to print, and the number of copies. 12 Select Adobe Photoshop from the pop-up menu and set the ‘Encoding’ selection to Binary. Set the ‘Print in’ selection to RGB if the file is an RGB file. 13 Select Printer Specific Options from pop-up menu. If you want the file to be printed automatically, select Print in the After Sending option.
Photoshop 5 1 From the Roland COLORCHOICE Print Monitor click Setup>Setup Properties. Then click the Print tab. 2 3 4 5 Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it, correct profiles and rendering intent are set. Click OK to close Setup Properties. Go to Apple menu and select Chooser. Highlight Adobe PS and make sure ColorCAMM PC-600@... is selected. In Photoshop go to File>Page Setup. From the ‘Paper’ field select your page size.
7 Select Page Attribute from the pop-up menu. Select the defined Custom Page in the ‘Paper’ field. 8 Select Adobe Photoshop from the pop-up menu. Click the Screen button. 9 Check the box for ‘Use Printer’s Default Screen’s. Click OK for Halftone Screen dialog. 10 Click OK for Adobe Page Setting dialog. 11 Go to File>Print. Select your printer in the ‘Printer’ field and select the page you want to print, and the number of copies.
selection to RGB color if the file is an RGB file. Also, you must uncheck PostScript Color Management. 13 Select Printer Specific Options from pop-up menu. If you want the file to be printed automatically, select Print in the After Sending option. If you want to verify the print mode and the profile settings before printing the file, select Hold. Select Hold in the After Printing if you want to keep the file in the Print Monitor after the file is printed. 14 Click Print to start printing.
7 Use EFI Color. Go to File>Page Setup. 8 Choose a standard paper size in the Paper field. 9 Select Custom Page Default from the pop-up menu if a custom page size is required, and enter your custom page size. Then enter a Custom Page Name and click the Add button. 10 Select Page Attributes from the pop-up menu. Select the defined Custom Page in the ‘Paper’ field. 11 Select QuarkXPress from the pop-up menu. Select ‘Roland ColorCAMM’ from the ‘Printer Type’ menu.
of copies. 13 Select Printer Specific Options from pop-up menu. If you want the file to be printed automatically, select Print in the After Sending option. If you want to verify the print mode and the profile settings before printing the file, select Hold. Select Hold in the After Printing, if you want to keep the file in the Print Monitor after the file is printed. 14 Click Print to start printing. QuarkXPress 4 In order to print successfully to QuarkXPress, you will need a special XTension.
5 6 7 selected. Launch QuarkXPress. Select Edit>Preferences>Color Management and uncheck Color Management Active. Click File>Page Setup. In the Printer Description list, select your Roland printer. Then click the Output tab to display it. 8 Select Composite color from the Print Colors list and Printer from the Halftoning list. Then click the Page Setup button. 9 Choose a standard paper size in the Paper field.
13 Select Printer Specific Options from the menu. 14 Select the appropriate options, and then click Print. You are returned to the Print dialog box. 15 Click Print to start printing.
Contour Cutting and Spot Color Printing Using a ColorCAMM PRO you can print objects and then cut a contour line around them.Also you can print using a Spot Color ribbon. To use such features, you have to install and use special color libraries in your design application such as Illustrator or QuarkXpress. No special settings or changes is needed on Roland COLORCHOICE. You can create objects using the following Spot Colors. All these objects will be printed using a special ribbon.
2 3 4 5 6 7 of the Installation CD to FreeHand 8:Colors folder. Start FreeHand. Create a new design file or open an existing file. Execute Window>Panels>Color List and open the Color List Palette. Select 'ColorCAMM PRO' from the 'Options' menu of Color List Palette. All the Spot Colors and the Cut Contour color will be listed in the Color Library window. Select all the colors that will be used. You can select multiple colors pressing the Ctrl key. Click OK.
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