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Input
Any image file that you wish to upload to the printer.
Processing
The currently active image data file converted to PostScript. The image's resolution, scan orientation,
and quality can be modified, depending on the selected option. All files are converted into PostScript
format for storage on the printer. If a virtual drive, the file is automatically sent to it.
Output
A PostScript file containing the necessary code to save the data file on the hard drive.
Task properties
General Tab
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Scan orientation: Select Side to side for images that will be printed in their original orientation
on a portrait oriented page, or in a rotated orientation on a landscape page. Select Top to bottom
for images that will be printed in a rotated orientation on a portrait oriented page, or in a rotated
orientation on a portrait oriented page. Note that images that are meant to be printed in various
ways can be stored twice on the printer as two identical copies of the same file that bear different
names (Image_Original.tif and Image_Rotated.tif, for example). The first copy can be processed
using a Send Images to Printer action task with the scan orientation set to Side to side, the
second one with a different Send Images to Printer action task with the scan orientation set to
Top to bottom, each one typically being included on two different branches of the same process.
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Color conversion: Select As is to keep the color information included in the images. Select Gray-
scale to convert color images to gray scale.
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Naming convention: Select ’File name, original’ to store the file under its original file name.
Select ’File name, no extension’ to store the file without its original file name extension. Note that
all characters are converted to uppercase and that extended characters (characters, such as é,
for example) are not recommended in image file names.
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Image quality: Select the same image quality chosen in the PlanetPress Design documents that
reference the image files you are sending. In PlanetPress Design, this setting is included in the
document’s resource options.
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Image compression level: Select the level at which you want images to be compressed. Values
can range from 1 (compress up to 1% of the image’s original size) to 100 (do not compress). For
example if you set this box to 75, the Image Downloader compresses all images by 75% when it
converts those image to PostScript. The default compression level is 70%.
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