Xerox Synergix 8825, Software Manual

Page 1: ...XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 Windows NT 4 0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide 701P36867 July 2001 ...

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Page 3: ...orporated PageMaker and Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated CorelDRAW is a registered trademark of Corel Corporation WinZip is a registered trademark of Nico Mak Computing Inc XEROX XES Synergix 8855 and 8855 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8850 and 8850 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8825 and 8825 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8830 and 8830 Digital Solution XES Synergix S...

Page 4: ...figuration 6 Accessing the Printer Properties Dialog 6 Printer Properties Dialog Tabs 7 Device Settings Parameters 8 Accessing the Document Properties Dialog 10 Document Properties Dialog Tabs 11 Advanced Tab Parameters 11 PAPER OUTPUT PARAMETERS 11 GRAPHIC PARAMETERS 13 DOCUMENT OPTIONS PARAMETERS 14 Page Layout N up Option 14 PostScript Options 14 AccXes Options 16 Job Tab Parameters 17 BANNER P...

Page 5: ...g your workstation to the network or directly to the printer s AccXES Controller Appropriate protocols and ports enabled on both the printer and workstation with a connection established through the network or directly between the printer and your workstation How to Use this Guide 1 Read Before You Start for valuable information on checking the status of your communication protocols and creating a...

Page 6: ...GURATION Test Print as stated in this Guide If you will be changing protocols from an existing working setup or setting up a new protocol or port you may want to refer to the step by step setup instructions provided in the Network Administrator s Guide available on the Internet at http www xes com This Guide is in Adobe Acrobat format with the name of admine pdf What desktop port will you be using...

Page 7: ...station select PRINTER DEFAULTS TEST PRINT Select the Minimal button to get a Configuration test print Select the Back arrow to return to the Test Print choices screen You can now exit the Web PMT by closing your web browser Notes You can also print a test print from the UTILITIES menu of the 8825 8830 8850 Printer Control Panel as explained in the XES Synergix 8825 8830 8850 8855 System Introduct...

Page 8: ...owever this driver can also be downloaded in self extracting Zip file format from the Internet at http www xes com If downloaded from the Internet double click on the appropriate file AccXES70_PS_NT_ENU EXE for example and the driver files will be automatically extracted to the indicated default folder on your hard drive Note If this process is not fully automated click on Unzip within the WinZip ...

Page 9: ...t 4 When the Manufacturers and Printers window displays Click on Have Disk and enter in the path to your CD ROM or to the driver files on your workstation Note that you can use the Browse button to locate the required inf file Click Open if required then click OK 5 When the Printers list is displayed on screen select your printer XES Synergix 8855 PS for example and click Next 6 When prompted acce...

Page 10: ...om your Desktop click Start Settings and Printers to open the Printers Window revealing a representative icon for your PostScript printer From this window if you right mouse click on the PostScript printer icon then left mouse click on Properties you will open the Printer Properties dialog set of tabbed screens shown on the next page of this Guide ...

Page 11: ...et the availability of the printer on a 24 hour basis to set the priority of document printing with higher priorities taking precedence in queues and to set spooler options so that print jobs are spooled directed to RAM or your hard drive for background printing freeing up your desktop application s in the process Sharing Tab Allows you to set up the printer as a shared network printer in a peer t...

Page 12: ...ll typically be four Rolls to set It is recommended that you leave this setting at the default of letter Font Substitution Table Displays a list of your system installed fonts and the printer resident fonts set for their replacement if you choose Substitute with Device Font in the True Type Font parameter of the Advanced Tab of the Document Properties Dialog as stated in this Guide Available PostS...

Page 13: ...ation AccXES Settings About AccXES Plug in Select this option and click the About AccXES Plug In button to display a screen informing you of the version number of the XES features created to work with this PostScript driver Select Finisher Select this option then click the Select Finisher button to open and import a Finisher fin file into the driver This file informs the driver of available Finish...

Page 14: ...nd range of pages to be printed From your application s Print Screen click the appropriate button Properties in Microsoft Word Setup in CorelDRAW 5 0 for example to display the Document Properties dialog which lets you change the processing defaults for your current job only Note The default settings for all jobs can be changed by going to Start Settings Printers Right mouse click on your printer ...

Page 15: ...R OUTPUT PARAMETERS Paper Size This parameter displays the currently selected paper size To change the paper size to match your application s page layout left mouse click on Paper Size and make a selection from the available list in the bottom dialog box The default paper size is Letter PostScript Custom Page Size If you click on this selection from the list of available paper size settings you ca...

Page 16: ...r displays the currently selected paper source To change the paper source left mouse click on Paper Source and make a selection from the available list in the bottom dialog box The following paper source options are supported Automatically Select Manual Feed Roll 1 Roll 2 Roll 3 Roll 4 The default paper source is Automatically Select Media This parameter displays the currently selected media To ch...

Page 17: ...y selected Scaling of the printed image To change the scaling left mouse click on Scaling and enter a selection from 10 999 which is the scaling range supported by the printer The default setting is 100 Note If you are performing a large scale enlargement be sure to manually select the appropriate Paper Size so that your image will fit onto one of the available rolls of media installed in the prin...

Page 18: ...xx xxx xxx xxx A sample prn ENTER Note that xxx stands for the IP address of the printer Encapsulated PostScript works together with the Print to File selection on your application s print screen to let you create a file that is importable as an EPS image in another document to be printed from a different program Archive Format works together with the Print to File selection on your application s ...

Page 19: ... Click on Send PostScript Error Handler to reveal the radio style selection buttons Yes and No and make your selection Mirrored Output Click this option to reveal the Yes or No radio buttons Make your selection and click OK The default setting is No Note This feature may be incompatible with some applications For specific information consult the driver Read Me file Negative Output This parameter c...

Page 20: ... enable the Printer Accounting button which opens a dialog that allows you to enter an account number of 1 to 999999 and a sub account number of 1 to 9999 Firmware 6 1 or older or a User ID and Account ID of 1 to 32 alphanumeric characters Firmware 7 0 or newer to charge media use to These must be the same numbers or User and Account identifications that were assigned to you by your System Adminis...

Page 21: ...mine if a plot label will be applied to your print job You can select None Printer default or User defined None means that no label is specified by the driver Printer Default uses the default label stored in the Controller if a default label was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool If you select User defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Label dia...

Page 22: ...r defined the Settings button will be enabled When you click this button a Raster Stamp dialog will display allowing you to enter a known stamp name of up to 32 alphanumeric characters in the Raster stamp name text box Using this dialog raster stamp placement position stamp rotation and scaling attributes can be individually set Scaling has a range of 10 to 999 in your choice of two options Select...

Page 23: ... output bin and to let the finisher know the location of the Title block in your document if any For an explanation of the individual dialog features click the key in the upper right corner of the dialog PLOT NESTING This option allows you to determine if plot nesting will be applied to your print job The purpose of Plot Nesting is to efficiently group the printing of plots on a single sheet of me...

Page 24: ...dium to your requested print size Block Printing will cause the printer to hold a media mismatched job until the proper medium has been installed in the printer Depending upon how the System Administrator has set up the Mismatch parameters using the Web PMT the mismatched job will either halt printing or send the job to a mismatch queue for later recall and media size or type resolution Substitute...

Page 25: ... of the many parameters available for setting on the Advanced Tab of the Document Properties dialog The parameters displayed on this Tab include Paper Size Paper Source Copy Count Collate Copies Orientation Color Appearance For full details on the setting of these parameters see the previously presented information in the Advanced Tab section of this Guide Figure 6 Typical Page Setup Tab ...

Page 26: ...ing features available with the Controller the following table shows additional printing features that can be set as job processing defaults with the Web Printer Manager Tool on a networked workstation Printing Feature Set with Printer Manager Tool Margins Justification yes Scale to Fit Autoscaling yes For information on how to set these parameters using the Printer Manager Tool see the Web Printe...

Page 27: ...printer 3 Select Delete from the drop down menu 4 Click Yes when prompted This will remove the PostScript Print Driver from your Windows NT 4 0 operating system 5 You may want to run Windows Explorer to remove the files that were created when the original driver file was downloaded from the Internet and then unzipped to a default location on your hard drive 6 Refer to the Release Notes that accomp...

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Page 30: ...s reserved Printed in the United States of America XEROX XES Synergix 8855 and 8855 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8850 and 8850 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8825 and 8825 Digital Solution XES Synergix 8830 and 8830 Digital Solution XES Synergix Scan System the digital box icon AccXES and the acronym XES are trademarks of XEROX Corporation 701P36867 July 2001 ...