ColorSpan Legacy System Control - User Guide

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External Disk Drives
The ColorSpan print servers support an optional SCSI interface
port for fixed disk, Iomega Jaz, Iomega Zip, and magneto-optical
drives. These drives may be used for DiskDirect, RIP Saver, or
both as described below. (CD-ROM drives can also support
DiskDirect, but not RIP Saver.) Consult ColorSpan Technical
Support for specific manufacturers and models that are
supported.
For installation details, refer to the Quick Start Guide that
accompanies your ColorSpan print server.
DiskDirect
When the print server software detects any external disk drive, it
makes the drive available when you click the DiskDirect port
icon in the System Control interface. Any supported file type
stored on this drive can be enqueued via DiskDirect. See “Disk-
Direct Printing” on page 3-11 for further information.
RIP Saver
When the print server software detects an external disk that has
been properly initialized as a RIP Saver drive, it appears in the
System Control interface as a RIP Saver Output queue icon,
identified with its SCSI ID number. The disk is also available
when you click the DiskDirect port icon in the System Control
interface. Any supported file type stored on this drive can be
enqueued via DiskDirect, and the disk may be included in a
print job route as a RIP Saver queue.
Storing many RIP Saver files or fonts can quickly fill the print
server’s internal hard disk. To maintain free space on the print
server for processing jobs, it is a good idea to store RIP Saver files
to an external disk drive. Free space on a external fixed disk
drive is also used by the server as additional PostScript process-
ing memory.
Once installed, an initialized external disk drive appears in Sys-
tem Control as a new RIP Saver output queue. A removable drive
appears as an empty output queue until you insert an initialized
disk into the drive.
You can route jobs to the disks, where they are saved as RIP Saver
files. Fixed and removable disks initialized by the server can be
exchanged on a single server or moved between multiple server
units.