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9-38 Guide to Printing Using Xerox Production Print Services
Sources for the printer capabilities file for Windows
You are not able to generate a printer capabilities file using
XDS on your Windows system. Instead, you must create the
file in XDS Plus. You can either load XDS Plus on your PC
that is running Windows and create the file on your own
system, or you can create the printer capabilities file on a
different system and transfer it to your PC.
Systems on which you can load and run XDS Plus include:
• A PC running Windows
• A Sun workstation running Solaris 2.6 or 2.8
• Your DocuSP printer controller running DocuSP 3.X
software.
Generating a printer capabilities file on XDS Plus
Follow these steps to generate a printer capabilities file for
XDS, using XDS Plus:
1. Install and open XDS Plus on one of the systems that
supports it. Refer to the Guide to Submitting Jobs Using
XDS Plus for the installation procedure.
2. On the XDS Plus window, select [Administration].
3. If necessary, select the [Status] tab to display the Status
window.
4. In the [Queues] section of the Status window, select a
queue name.
5. From the Options pull-down menu, select [Generate
Printer Capabilities File...].
6. On the Save Printer Capabilities File window, locate and
open the folder in which you want the system to save the
printer capabilities file that it generates. In the [File name]
text field, enter a name for the file. The name must have a
.xcp extension.
7. Select [Save]. The system saves the file in the selected
location, and the Save Printer Capabilities File window
closes.
8. If necessary, transfer the printer capabilities file to your
workstation from the system on which you created the file.
9. Specify the location of the printer capabilities file in the
Preferences window within XDS. Refer to “Setting user
preferences,” earlier in this chapter, for the procedure.