RW-480 CLIENTS
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CONTENTS Contents RW-480 CLIENTS .................................................................8 Manual conventions..................................................................10 PART I – RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN...................................11 Introduction ......................................................................12 Installation .......................................................................13 System requirements ...............................................................
CONTENTS "Default Additional" tab ........................................................43 "Entry" settings area ..................................................................44 Stamp editor .....................................................................46 Make stamp .............................................................................46 Stamp configurations ................................................................47 Edit or delete stamp ..........................................
CONTENTS PART III – RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI ..........................88 Introduction ......................................................................89 Installation .......................................................................90 Installation of the HPGL/2 plotter ....................................91 Installation in AutoCAD 13........................................................91 Installation in AutoCAD 14........................................................92 Configuration......
CONTENTS Calcomp ...........................................................................126 Add local entry, add multiple...................................................128 Local files or ZIP-Archive (add local entry) ...........................129 ZIP-Archive with SSL-job .....................................................130 Several local files (add multiple) .........................................130 Entry list .................................................................................
CONTENTS Index...............................................................................
RW-480 CLIENTS RW-480 CLIENTS This manual explains the installation and operation of RW-480 PLOTCLIENTs as well as two networks. You find out how you can use the RW-480 PLOTCLIENTs or network protocols to produce print jobs, set print parameters and to send the print jobs to the RW-480 PLOTBASE server program.
RW-480 CLIENTS PLOTCLIENT WIN program or directly to the RW-480 PLOTBASE server program. • RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB The RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB enables you to send print jobs to RW-480 PLOTBASE both via the Intranet as well as via the Internet. You can stipulate numerous print parameters. Successful processing of the print processes in RW-480 PLOTBASE can be controlled via a status message. Equally, you can also have an e-mail sent to obtain a message on successful job completion.
RW-480 CLIENTS Manual conventions In the text, you can come across two possible terms, which are intended to point out special circumstances or advantages or even to warn you against certain work steps: Note: You are free to decide whether you wish to follow the recommendation given in a note or not. Notes are usually used to draw your attention to special circumstances or even to point out useful commands or ones that are easily forgotten and overseen.
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INTRODUCTION Introduction This part of the manual describes the program RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN. RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN is available for Microsoft Windows NT, for Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, for Microsoft Windows 2000 as well as for Microsoft Windows XP and is a program for preparing plot jobs, which it then sends to the server program, RW-480 PLOTBASE. This is carried out by collating set-based jobs.
INSTALLATION Installation In this chapter you can read about which system requirements have to be fulfilled and how to carry out the installation. System requirements Please read through the following recommendations carefully. They can be very helpful in finding the optimum hardware for your requirements. • Operating system Microsoft Windows XP Professional, ServicePack 2 Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, ServicePack 4 Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.
INSTALLATION Installation of the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN This section describes how to install the program. The installation program is in the released directory "tools" of RW-480 PLOTBASE: \\[ServerPC]\tools\RW_480_PLOTCLIENT_WIN To install the program, please proceed as follows: 1. For installation, start Windows as user with administrator rights and open Windows Explorer. 2. If Windows has already been started with administrator rights, quit all active programs resp. do a data backup. 3.
INSTALLATION a job example, which you can send off straight away as the first print job.
START AND QUIT PROGRAM Start and quit program • Start program The installation program sets up its own program group with program symbols towards the end of the installation. To start RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN, open it via the "Start" bar or double click on its program symbol. Your first sample print is easy to manage and will already be started at the end of your installation. For explanations you will have to read in following two chapters "From the drawing to the job" on page 20 and "Job editor" on page 34.
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PROGRAM SEQUENCE Program sequence This chapter provides you with an overview of how the drawing gets into the job list of RW-480 PLOTBASE and is then printed. At the end of the chapter you will find a graphic, which illustrates the job flow. Together with the introductory chapter, this chapter is intended to help you to bet to know the environment and the embedding of the program in it. In addition, the most important terms used in the program are also explained.
PROGRAM SEQUENCE • • • • • • • • • • • • • Calcomp CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A DWF DWG DXF HPGL/2, HP-RTL Intergraph PCX RLC T6X TIFF G4 Windows Metafile Windows OS/2 Bitmap [*.906, *.907] [*.cal] [*.dwf] [*.dwg] [*.dxf] [*.plt, *rtl] [*.cit, *.tg4] [*.pcx] [*.rlc] [*.t6x] [*.tif] [*.wmf] [*.bmp] As an option, the file format CGM [*.cgm] as well as PDF and postscript, i.e. RW-480 Postscript Level 3 Compatible Option are also available [*.pdf, *.ps].
PROGRAM SEQUENCE From the drawing to the job The following lists the path of a drawing from its preparation through to the job list of RW-480 PLOTBASE. The work steps are presented functionally and not person-related, i.e. that several functions can be carried out by the same person. With the help of this section, the following graphic and the first chapter of the manual, you should be able to grasp the task and possible applications of RW-480 PLOTBASE and the environment: 1.
PROGRAM SEQUENCE files, that contain several single files. 2. DRAG & DROP: The user brings all the drawings intended for printing into RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN using Drag & Drop or using the "insert entry" or "add entry" functions. 3. PREPARE ORDER: The user collates the drawings to form jobs in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN, assigns print settings and checks the drawing using check preview. 4.
customer engineering draftsman hand over drawings job creator drawings by drag & drop e.g.
TOOLS Tools This section gives you a brief overview of the program’s tools. You can blank out and insert the toolbars using the menu item "view". You work in the job editor with the main symbol bar, and use the icon bar for the file preview.
TOOLS Icon bar Rotate drawing 90° to the left Rotate drawing 90° to the right Rotate drawing through 180° Drawing in original position Successively enlarge drawing Successively reduce drawing Switch drawing to zoom all Switch drawing to view 1:1 Multipage document: View first page Multipage document: Back one page Multipage document: Enter destination page Multipage document: Forward one page Multipage document: View last page Open file information Display drawing in black & white view Display drawing in
TOOLS Display drawing in preview lighter, if gray display – has no effect on printing Display drawing in preview darker, if gray display – has no effect on printing RW-480 CLIENTS 25
PRESETS Presets Before you begin with the work in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN, you must first set a few presets as e.g. determine the SSL paths or enter the SSL default values. Setting the SSL defaults Setting of the SSL default values is automatically called up following installation, in the very first program start. Enter which values are to be the standard values for all SSL print jobs. Also, after the first program start, these default values can be changed whenever you wish.
PRESETS • Work directory This is the folder, in which RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN temporarily caches the jobs, before they are finally sent to the folder that RW-480 PLOTBASE looks through for jobs. The working folder should always be a local folder, so that the program can quickly access the data. This folder is in the two following fields: "SSL spool path from the view of RW-480 PLOTCLIENT" and "SSL spool path from the view of RW-480 PLOTBASE".
PRESETS • SSL spool path - path If you want to state the path name considering the UNC, you only need to state the directory for the print orders here. State the directory exactly as it is stated in your inhouse network. As you can create several ssl spool paths, here you can choose from all currently created spool paths. • Compress all Plots to this Path The RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN can compress your jobs. To do this, activate the left-hand option, "Compress all jobs...
PRESETS WIN work together via the network, there will be different drives. Set up SSL spool paths If you have several devices or types of software in the in-house network for printing you can set up the corresponding SSL spool path here for all these possible print outputs. Proceed as follows: 1. Open the "Plot Path" window by clicking once on the button to the right of the path information. 2.
PRESETS "Format" tab Open the "Format" tab via the menu item "Settings – Options". On this tab you set the size unit that is to apply for all work with RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN. You can choose between "Pixels", "Millimeters" and "Inches". The current valid size unit is always displayed in the status row at the lower edge of the screen. "[600 DPI]" shows that 600 DPI is the standard value in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN and all conversions in a conversion of size units always refer to 600 DPI.
PRESETS SNMP Monitor The SNMP printer monitor shows you the properties of the plotter connected to the system. The monitor is opened under "File Device Information": "Device List" tab The "Device List" tab gives you the following information: • Device This displays all the units connected, numbered from Printer 0 to Printer x. In the current program version however only one plotter is ever connected. • State The State displays general information, e.g.
PRESETS • Model version Here you see the version number of the model connected. • Toner Filling Here you see the level of remaining toner. • Folder This column shows whether or not a folder is connected. "Properties" tab The "Properties" tab contains the following information: • Media Source This lists the plotter reels to which the additional information in the adjacent columns refers. • Media Type This column shows the material available on each reel, e.g. paper, transparency, foil or film.
PRESETS • Min. Length Here you see the minimum possible length of the medium that can be accommodated in the tray. Change language When starting the program for the first time, your RW-480 software comes up in the language you selected on installation of the program. But if you want to change the language of the program, you can do that quickly and easily in three stages in Windows without any further adjustments: 1. Open the language setting using the menu point "Settings Language". 2.
JOB EDITOR Job editor In the job editor you can change the settings for jobs and the entries included in them. Furthermore, you can also delete jobs or entries. The individual possible settings range from the format size to the selection of the print medium and the output shaft through to details of the position of the drawing header. "Job" settings area This section describes the general settings for all jobs, which can be adjusted on the two cards "Job Specific" and "Job Additional".
JOB EDITOR Note: Insofar as the function "User authentication" is activated at the RW-480 plotter, make sure that the user name here is identical with the user which has been set up there, otherwise the print job will not be carried out! To keep a better check on all used user names, it is advisable always to take the user names used in the network.
JOB EDITOR Normal, High, Low, Wait. You can alter the priority here or set it to the highest level. • Job Copies Here you can enter the number of job copies. • Job Flag Sheet Activate the "ON" field, if you want an overview of all the information that you have entered in this "Job" tab printed out on a cover sheet. You can add further information in the comments field below this, which may not have more than a maximum 50 characters. Please do not use any quotation marks.
JOB EDITOR on the selected output tray: If the "front" tray is selected, the order of the sheets in the stack is the same as the print order: ... 4, 3, 2, 1 If the "rear" tray is selected, the order of the sheets in the stack is reversed again. The result is the original: 1, 2, 3, 4.. auto: The print order depends on the selected tray. The order of the sheets in the resulting stack does not depend on the selected output tray. It is forward ( 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
JOB EDITOR "Job Additional" tab Use the "Job Additional" card to adjust the settings for "Combine" and "Document Server": "Combine" refers to grouping together drawings for joint printout on one single sheet. In this way, you can have up to 16 drawings printed out on one single sheet. The "Document Server" is a memory unit in the plotter where RW-480 PLOTBASE can send one or several documents for later printout.
JOB EDITOR Note: Custom paper sizes are not supported for the feature "Combine"! • Media Type Use this selection menu to choose the media type for printing the summarized pages: any, paper, transparency, film and environment paper. The choice depends on what you have put on the rolls of your plotter. • Media Source Select one of the shafts with the rolls for the different print materials (paper, film, etc.). The rolls can differ in width.
JOB EDITOR • User Name Also give the job a user name. This additional information is particularly useful if several users send jobs to the document server. • Password If you only want your job to be printed on the plotter by you, you can protect it with a password. To do so, click on the "Change" button and enter your password twice. As soon as the plotter selects the print command for the corresponding job, the plotter will demand the password stated here.
JOB EDITOR mats, which are the usual standards in Germany, all Europe and in the USA: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E. In the format setting "Original" the program obtains the format size from the original file of the drawing. This is the presetting. If you use the format setting "Window", you can freely set the values for the format width and format height, whereby the style sheet is set by the window value.
JOB EDITOR DY input field is automatically filled with the value of the Scale DX, if you have activated the "Maintain ratio" option. If you then want to enter the Scale DY value independently, you must deactivate the "Maintain ratio" option. In this case, you must consider that the drawing will be distorted. • Media type and position Use this menu to select which type of media the drawing is to be printed on: Don´t care, Paper, Translucent or Film.
JOB EDITOR • Border If you want a white border around the drawing, activate the "ON" field and enter the required spacing for all side borders. The current dimensional units are given in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. • Media Source Here you can select the trays in which the rolls with the different Printing materials (paper, translucent, etc.) are located. They can also have varying widths.
JOB EDITOR • Mirror In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting. The individual fields mean the following: OFF: The drawing is not mirrored during plotting. X: The drawing is mirrored horizontally. Y: XY: The drawing is mirrored vertically. The drawing is mirrored about both axes simultaneously; equates to a 180° rotation. You usually use these settings if the drawing has been scanned and saved with a mirror inversion.
JOB EDITOR If you want to make entries in the "Specific" tab, read the information given for the "Default Specific" tab from Page 40. If you want to alter the settings on the "Additional" tab , read the details for the "Default Additional" given on Page 43. You can open a tab for the pen settings on the "Additional" tab. To do this, click on the "Pen settings" button. When an entry or a drawing is marked, the program automatically identifies the format and opens the Calcomp or HPGL settings itself.
STAMP EDITOR Stamp editor The stamp settings can be altered on two levels. To configure a stamp for an individual entry, select the "Additional" tab under "Entry". Now click on the "Settings" button under "Stamp". The same button can be you in the "Defaults" area on the "Extended Defaults " tab. The settings in the "Defaults" area are basic settings, in which the following must always be noted: Note: Changes to the basic settings always only apply to new entries that are added.
STAMP EDITOR the button with the same name; i.e. "Save". This configuration is now saved under the marked stamp name in the "Select Stamp " window. 4. You can produce as many stamps as you wish for a drawing. If you now also want to configure an additional new stamp, click on the following button: 5. Enter a name and set the desired configurations, as already described under Step 3. Stamp configurations The stamp settings are usually saved for specific entries.
STAMP EDITOR "Settings" tab General details, e.g. on mirroring, rotation, stamp type and stamp position are made in the "settings" tab: • Mirror The standard orientation of the text is always the reader direction. You can mirror the text here in four ways: None: The text is not mirrored and is in the reader direction. X-mirror: The text is mirrored horizontally. Y-mirror: The text is mirrored vertically. XY-mirror: The text is mirrored about both axes simultaneously, which equates to a rotation of 180°.
STAMP EDITOR Translucent In the "Translucent" setting the inserted stamp lies "beneath" the existing drawing, which means that parts of the stamp can be overwritten. - Inverting It is only the "Inverting" setting that allows both the drawing as well as the stamp to be identified in the plot, because the overlapping areas are shown inverted. - • Stamp placement This is where you fix the actual position of the stamp on the drawing.
STAMP EDITOR "Data" tab On the "Data" tab the user specifies the stamp text and logo. You can also change the text and text attributes on this tab or even change the logo: • Stamp type Before you can begin to enter the settings or change the other fields, you must first select the stamp type, whereby the two symbols are clear: With the "A" you activate the "Text" field, with the colored symbol you let the program know that there is a logo and activate the "Logo orientation" field.
STAMP EDITOR font attributes. Only the font color setting does not have any effect, because the color is fixed in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN with black. • Preview Use the "Preview" button if you want to view the stamp again before the final print. In this window you can move the directional arrows to move from side to side and enlarge or reduce the view using "+" and "–". The left-hand mouse button can be used to enlarge a selected area.
STAMP EDITOR - Notes: This macro inserts in the stamp the text of the job editor field "Notes". User name: The user name gives the user, who carried out the stamp function. • Stamp graduation The stamps can be printed in four different color graduations: black, dark grey, grey and pale grey. The default setting is black. But the color graduations are only available if you have adjusted the stamp types "opaque" or "transparent".
PEN SETTINGS Pen settings You can change the pen settings on two levels. On the one hand in the "Defaults" area of the "Extended defaults " tab and on the other in the "Entry" area on the "Additional" tab. The settings in the "Defaults" area are basic settings, for which the following must always be noted: Note: Changes to the basic settings always only refer to new entries that have been added. Existing entries already in the job retain their settings.
PEN SETTINGS source as "user". 6. Quit the pen settings. 7. Double click on the entry that has just been changed. The changes are visible in the file view. You may have to enlarge the view if e.g. the pen widths have only slightly changed. Note: It is possible that if you change colors you will not see any large changes in the preview file, if you only change from 50% gray to 60% gray for gray shades say. Clear changes are e.g.
PEN SETTINGS • Pen size Enter the pen size directly in the first column under "Size" using the keyboard. The maximum values that you can enter depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration program. The current valid size unit is given in the status bar at the lower edge of the screen. If you want to "Switch off" a pen, you can enter the pen widths as "0"or set the pen color as "White". • Pen colors Select the pen color in the second column under "Color".
PEN SETTINGS HPGL/2 - Colors To assign the required gray scale to each of the individual colors, open the "Color" tab: In this window you can change the gray scale, which has been assigned to each color. If you do not want to change each color, you can set all pens to "Gray" on the "Pen" tab and there you can set the individual gray values for each pen. You can change the percentage value directly using the keyboard. Click on "OK" to quit the window and your settings are saved.
PEN SETTINGS HPGL/2 - Misc • Source: The following description applies to both pen source and color source. If you activate "File", the details for pen thickness or pen color are taken from the plot file being printed. If no settings have been adjusted here, the plotter reverts to the standard defaults on the last card "Plotter Defaults". If you activate "Custom", the printout uses your settings from the first two cards "Pen" and "Color".
PEN SETTINGS to the section, which, put simply, refers to the paper size. This fact means that undesirable printing results are obtained, if a drawing is only printed in sections or in the most unfavorable case a white sheet of paper comes out of the plotter. The "Clipping" function is considered in the context of the widely used reference plotter "HP DesignJet 1055 / 1055 CM": If you activate the check box, the drawing is printed in exactly the same way as it was printed on the "HP DesignJet" plotter.
PEN SETTINGS Analog to the problem with the minimum pen widths, you can set the maximum thickness that the pen draws, e.g. to prevent the drawn objects from overlapping when printed. Setting the maximum pen widths on the other hand is less seldom necessary. Should one of your settings not cover the plotter circumstances and no longer guarantee the printout of a drawing object, RW480 PLOTCLIENT WIN automatically adjusts the pen widths here too.
PEN SETTINGS • Pattern Style You have a choice of four filling patterns to influence a pure vector graphic diagram so that you can produce printouts which are optimized for your plotter type. "Round" means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement on the area, to achieve the intended color saturation.
PEN SETTINGS HPGL/2 - Plotter Defaults These settings are the standard defaults or plotter defaults.
PEN SETTINGS • User Defined You can change the pen thickness and the grey shades, apart from the black and white pens: these settings are saved as presets.
PEN SETTINGS Calcomp - Pens The pen attributes are set on the "Pen" tab: • Pen size The pen sizes are entered directly using the keyboard in the first column under "Size". The maximum values that can be entered depend on the size unit, which you set in the configuration program. The current valid size unit is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you want to "remove" a pen, you can set the pen widths as "0" or as the pen color "White".
PEN SETTINGS • Gray (%) The gray scale value can only be adjusted if you have selected "Gray" as the color. Here too the changes are made directly using the keyboard. • Set all The "Set all" option allows you to set the pen attributes for all 16 pens simultaneously.
PEN SETTINGS Calcomp - Colors To assign the required gray scale value to each individual color, open the "Color" tab: The change to the percentage figure is made directly using the keyboard. Quit the window with "OK" and your changes will be saved. If you do not wish to save your changes, quit the window with "Cancel" or "ESC". In this window you can change the gray scale value, which has been assigned to each color.
PEN SETTINGS Calcomp - Misc • Pen Source If you activate the field "File", you tell the plotter that the printout should use the pen thickness entered in the plot file belonging to the entry, and not the settings on the card "Pen". If no pen widths are defined, the program uses your settings. If you activate "Custom" your settings are always used. • Pen Scale Activate this field if the pen widths are to be scaled at the same time as a drawing is scaled.
PEN SETTINGS In this way, you can ensure that a drawing that has exactly the same size as a standard format is printed on this size paper thereby avoiding an unnecessary waste of paper. • Pen Limits (mm) − Min Enter the minimum pen widths using the keyboard. The information entered here affects all Calcomp pens. As there are plotters in which even at the finest resolution the individual pixels are not reliably reproduced, a minimum pen size is indispensable in these cases.
PEN SETTINGS a s m a l l e r drawing: The entry 1 equates to 0.125 %. Example: if you enter 801, the drawing is reduced to 99.875 %. • Pattern Style Three types of patterns are defined for Calcomp drawings, in which the "Pattern" command is used. "Round" means that a certain colored area is filled with a certain number of filled circles, which are given a certain arrangement on the area, to achieve an intended color saturation.
PEN SETTINGS want to enter the settings yourself. Should you nevertheless want to make a change or to find out more on the topic, compare the settings with those in your CAD system or read the following section in the "Calcomp Inc." manual: "CALCOMP - ONLINE REFERENCE MANUAL" in the section "Data Message Format".
COLLATE JOBS Collate jobs Your main task with RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN is to collate [Plot-] jobs for RW-480 PLOTBASE. You are free to choose whether you compile a job with one entry or with several entries. You can prepare fully new jobs or open existing jobs and add further entries. To collate a new job you must proceed as follows: 1. Open a new job, either via the menu item "File – New" or by clicking once on the relevant button: 2. Assign a name to your new job. Attention: The extension "*.
COLLATE JOBS Add entries Newly inserted entries can have the following file formats, which are identified by RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN from the file extension: • Calcomp [*.906, *.907] • CALS MIL-STD 1840B,28002A [*.cal] • DWF [*.dwf] • DWG [*.dwg] • DXF [*.dxf] • HPGL/2, HP-RTL [*.plt, *rtl] • Intergraph [*.cit, *.tg4] • PCX [*.pcx] • RLC [*.rlc] • TIFF G4 [*.tif] • Windows Metafile [*.wmf] • Windows OS/2 Bitmap [*.bmp] The file formats CGM [*.cgm] as well as PDF and postscript, i.e.
COLLATE JOBS If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, click on: 3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file formats and confirm with "OK". You can now mark several files to insert lots of drawings in one go, as in the File Manager. Add using the right-hand mouse button To add an entry using the right-hand mouse button, proceed as follows: 1. Mark an entry in the entry list before or after which the new entry is to be inserted.
COLLATE JOBS If you do mark an entry, new entries are always inserted at the end of the list. 2. Select the relevant menu item from the "Edit" menu. If the new entry is to be inserted after the marked entry, select: Edit – add entry... If the new entry is to be inserted in front of the marked entry, select: Edit – insert entry... The program opens a file selection window. 3. Select the required file, which has one of the above file formats and confirm with "OK".
COLLATE JOBS Add multiple entries Sometimes, a customer job order is such that an entry has to be printed several times with different settings: e.g. if an entry is to be plotted once with A0 format on paper and the second time with A1 format on a translucence. To do this, you can also add an entry several times. However, the program only physically inserts an entry once and if you add an entry several times, it simply sets a reference to the first entry. Example: You insert the file "ABC.tif".
COLLATE JOBS keeping the mouse key depressed, where the entries to be deleted are listed one after the other or use the SHIFT – key. To mark several entries that are not listed one after the other, use the Ctrl Key, as in Explorer. After you have inserted or appended the entries, adjust the settings for the jobs and individual entries in the job editor.
COLLATE JOBS Entry information Before you can begin with a possible change to the settings, you can view a summary of all the currently loaded settings. Click on the white "i" for information display in the "View" toolbar: For most file formats you can only see the "Misc" tab. It contains e.g. the information about the file format, the drawing size and used pens.
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INTRODUCTION Introduction The Windows printer driver RW-480 WINPRINT allows print jobs to be recorded from Windows applications, to then pass them directly to RW-480 PLOTBASE as a plot job. So you use your printer driver RW-480 WINPRINT as any other printer via your Windows application menus "File – Print". The RW-480 WINPRINT will be installed on the server PC where the server software RW-480 PLOTBASE is running. On your client PC you only have to share via network this printer driver on the server PC.
INSTALLATION Installation Before you can use the RW-480 WINPRINT, you have to install it on your client PC as a "network printer", as you have already done with every in-house network printer on your PC before. To install RW-480 WINPRINT as network printer, please proceed as follows: 1. Open "Printers" window via "Start – Settings – Printers". 2. Open "Add Printer" and click on "Next". 3. Choose "Network Printer" and click on "Next". 4.
CONFIGURATION Configuration This section describes the set up of the print parameters. After entering these settings, your RW-480 WINPRINT printer driver is ready for printing. The following chapters only differ in the user interfaces that depend on the different operating systems. Nevertheless it will be the same RW-480 WINPRINT for all operating systems. There are only internal differences between the described RW-480 WINPRINT (16 bit operating systems) and RW-480 WINPRINT (32 bit operating systems).
CONFIGURATION Note: If you choose the "bypass" option, please note, that the format has to match with minimum size 182mm x 149mm. • Output You have two possibilities for the output of your printouts on plotter RW-480: front and rear. The standard setting is output at the front. • Paper Size In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, to be used for printing the drawing. You will find the drawing formats: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E.
CONFIGURATION "Job Processing" tab • Sample Print Activate this option, if you wish to test the quality of a print. Only the first set of copies is printed. The print out of further sets of copies is stopped so that you can check the quality of the print. So you will go to the server and plot it. Then you decide whether to continue or to cancel the plot according to message display.
CONFIGURATION ... auto: The print order depends on the selected tray. The order of the sheets in the resulting stack does not depend on the selected output tray. It is forward ( 1, 2, 3, 4, ... ) in case of tray "front" and in case of tray "rear". Print Parameters of RW-480 WINPRINT (32 bit) This section describes the settings of the print parameters on client PCs with following 32 bit operating systems: • Windows NT 4.
CONFIGURATION wish to specify a more precise setting, choose one of the categories. The actual setting options then appear in the lower section. You have the following setting options: • Paper size In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, to be used for printing the drawing. You will find the drawing formats: ISO A/B/C, ANSI A-E and ARC A-E. • [Paper Size] Manage Press the button "Manage" to go to the dialogue for individual management of the formats.
CONFIGURATION the top. • Media Type In the lower part of the window select what type of medium is to be used for the print: Paper, Translucent, film or recycled paper. The selection depends on what you have loaded your plotter with. • Print to Document Server The "Document Server" is a memory unit in the plotter where RW-480 WINPRINT can send one or several documents for later printout: File Name Give an unequivocal file name to the job being sent to the document server.
CONFIGURATION umns from top to bottom until the column is full, before beginning with the next column. • Sample Print Activate this option, if you wish to test the quality of a print. Only the first set of copies is printed. The print out of further sets of copies is stopped so that you can check the quality of the print. You are then asked, whether you wish to continue or abort the plot. • Delete after Plot If you activate this option, the job is deleted after printing.
CONFIGURATION • Color adjustment for raster images More detailed information on using this module is available in the context sensitive Help. Click on the question mark in the head of the row. The mouse cursor changes into a question mark. Now click on the function to which you have a question with the left-hand mouse key. A small popup window opens with information. After you have altered all the settings, close all the windows with "OK" and start the printing process.
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INTRODUCTION Introduction RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI produces HPGL/2-files from the drawings and documents, which have been produced in the AutoCAD programs AutoCAD R13, AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2000i, AutoCAD LT 2000, AutoCAD Lti 2000, AutoCAD 2002, AutoCAD LT 2002, AutoCAD 2004, AutoCAD LT 2004, AutoCAD 2005, AutoCAD LT 2005 or AutoCAD 2006. The print jobs can be sent to the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WIN program or directly to the RW-480 PLOTBASE server program.
INSTALLATION Installation The installation of the program is carried out on a workstation, on which an AutoCAD program is installed. You will find the installation program in the shared "tools" folder of RW-480 PLOTBASE: \\[ServerPC]\tools\RW_480_PLOTCLIENT_HDI_ADI 1. For installation, start Windows as user with administrator rights and open Windows Explorer. 2. If Windows has already been started with administrator rights, quit all active programs resp. do a data backup. 3.
INSTALLATION OF THE HPGL/2 PLOTTER Installation of the HPGL/2 plotter Before using PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI with AutoCAD 13/14, an HPGL/2 plotter [HP DesignJet 1055 CM] has to be installed. This installation is described in the two sections below. Installation in AutoCAD 13 1. Start AutoCAD 13 and open the configuration dialogue under the menu point "Options – Configure". 2. Press "Return" once. 3. Choose option 5 "Configure Plotter" and press "Return" to confirm. 4.
INSTALLATION OF THE HPGL/2 PLOTTER 22. Choose option "0" again to finish the dialogue completely. 23. Then choose option "Yes" to save the changes you have made, and press "Return" to confirm. 24. Close AutoCAD 13 and continue with the next chapter "Configuration". Installation in AutoCAD 14 1. Start AutoCAD 14 and open the window "Preferences" under the menu point "File – Printer Setup". 2. Open the window "Add A Printer" by clicking on "New" once. 3.
CONFIGURATION Configuration To configure RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI you must carry out two further configurations. First via the program’s own configuration tool and then in the print dialog of AutoCAD.
CONFIGURATION Settings for AutoCAD 13/14 in print dialog To set up the printer with the print dialog in AutoCAD 13 or 14 proceed as follows: 1. Start your AutoCAD program. 2. Open a drawing. 3. Use "File – Print" to go to the print dialogue "Plot Configuration". 4. Click on the button "Device and Default Selection" and then make your choice from the list of HP-GL/2 printers (e.g. HP DesignJet 1055). Press "OK" to confirm. 5.
CONFIGURATION 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. list, proceed with step 7. If the printer is listed, continue with step 10. If the RW-480 printer is not listed, select the option "Have disk". Go to the "drv" directory of the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT HDI program directory. Enter the driver file you need for your AutoCAD and confirm with "Open": AutoCAD 2000: "RW480DrvACAD2000.hif" AutoCAD 2000i, 2002: "RW480DrvACAD2000i-2.hif" AutoCAD 2004, 2005, 2006: "RW480DrvACAD2004.
CONFIGURATION from AutoCAD as individual print jobs or whether you need to process several drawings in one drawing set together. If you want to process several drawings simultaneously for printing, activate "generate set with RW480 PLOTCLIENT WIN". If you always only want to send individual jobs from AutoCAD to print and always want to use the same plot parameter settings, tell the program "do not display" this dialog.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS Presets for print jobs As soon as you want to send the file to print, the presets for the print open, in which you enter on which medium and format you want to print or even, whether the file is to be printed rotated and mirrored. You can alter the settings for the print job on four tabs: • Main • Job Data • Advanced • Options "Main" tab • Formats In this section of the tab you select the drawing format, in which the drawing is to be printed.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS • Mirror In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting. You can choose from four options OFF: The drawing is not mirrored during plotting. X: The drawing is mirrored horizontally. Y: XY: The drawing is mirrored vertically. The drawing is mirrored about both axes simultaneously; equates to a 180° rotation. You usually use these settings if the drawing has been scanned and saved with a mirror inversion.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS largest format. This can be a disadvantage if e.g. a drawing is only around 0.5 cm larger than a ISO A5 page is printed on a ISO A4 page and thus almost 50 % of the sheet remains unused. The advantage is that some folders require exact formats and you can match them using the "Format" setting. • Size unit Set the size units to "mm" or "inches", which apply for all settings. • Printer name This default cannot be changed. The RW-480 plotter is preset.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS INI file, the current settings in the windows are set as the basic settings for this user. If the user name already exists, the current settings are overwritten by the saved basic settings for this user from the INI-file. The maximum number of characters can be 40.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS ceiver of the invoice in-house. • Locked Print By confirming the "Enter password" button, a dialog is displayed in which the user is requested to enter a password. After this, the print out can only be started at the server RW-480 PLOTBASE, if the correct password has been entered. For the password, more than 32 characters can be accepted, however, it is recommended to use 4 to 32 characters! • Priority Set the priority of the print job.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS "Options" tab • Server name Enter the name or IP address of the PC where RW-480 PLOTBASE is running. • Spool folder A dialog is opened with the "Find" button, in which the user can search for the spool folder on their computer or in the network. • Save as basic settings The current settings are saved for the current user name and plotter type by pressing the confirmation button.
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INTRODUCTION Introduction The RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB enables you to send print jobs to RW-480 PLOTBASE both via the Intranet as well as via the Internet. You can stipulate numerous print parameters. Successful processing of the print processes in RW-480 PLOTBASE can be controlled via a status message. Equally, you can also have an e-mail sent to obtain a message on successful job completion or if there are problems.
INSTALLATION Installation To access the program you merely need a browser program. Use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 4.x, 6.1 or higher version. The installation of RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB has already been carried out on the RW-480 PLOTBASE server. To be able to use the "add multiple" function in the browser program, a Java runtime environment must be installed on your workstation. This program has been supplied for three different operating systems.
INSTALLATION • Wmplgin1.exe: Windows TIF viewer to be able to view tif files directly in the browser. Select a suitable program for your operating system and start the installation. Follow the instructions given by the installation program.
CONFIGURATION Configuration The configuration of the program is carried out by an administrator. They can access the configuration page from any computer within the network, if they have the relevant access password. The following properties can be set on the configuration page: • Access rights for individual users, • Paths for print jobs, response messages and job logs, • Password for the configuration page.
CONFIGURATION "administrator password"), to prevent other people from accessing the administrator pages. Click on the "Continue" button to confirm the input. Access rights for users Setting up a new user and assigning their access rights is simple. Click once on the menu item "User" and then on "New" and enter the data for the new user. Note: If the "New" button does not appear, check whether the maximum number of users has already been reached.
CONFIGURATION convince themselves whether the print data has arrived complete and without errors before printing. • Password When changing the password, please enter it twice. If the password has already been issued or is to be changed, the program also accepts empty entries! I.e., no entry here means an empty field in the log in! As soon as you have entered all the information, quit the set up of a new user with "Accept". With respect to setting up users, ensure you follow the following: 1.
CONFIGURATION Set spool path (upload) The job and drawing files of RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB are stored in a local spool folder. This is normally the subfolder c:\spool\ssl. This is where both the SSL files required for RW480 PLOTBASE, and the drawing data assigned to each job are stored in individual subdirectories. To work correctly, it is very important that you enter the complete local path. The spool paths, which are given for RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB and for RW-480 PLOTBASE must show the identical folder.
CONFIGURATION Additional settings (misc.) By clicking on the "misc." button, you open the following configuration window: You can use this configuration window to set a response path, an auto refresh timeout, a path for log files, and options for the print out of the log file and a language for the configuration pages. The individual settings are described in the following. • Response-Queue-Path Enter the path for the response folder, which is set up by RW480 PLOTBASE.
CONFIGURATION • Log Info on New Job You can have a log file produced, in which the most important editing processes carried out for a job are stored. If you want this option, activate the check box in front of "log job info" field. Now enter a path for the file (e.g. c:\spool\pcweblog.txt) in this field. If the file cannot be found in a folder of the computer on which RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB is, but is to be saved on another computer, use a UNC path entry.
CONFIGURATION 2. Enter the name of your in-house mail server in the first field. Ask your network administrator if you don’t know. 3. Beneath this, enter an e-mail address, known in the network. We recommend that you use the e-mail address of the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB administrator. 4. Confirm the entries with "accept". Administrator password (admin) Access to the configuration pages is usually via the fixed defined "admin" account using the password "admin".
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Prepare print jobs In the editing windows of RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB, you can collate print jobs, determine the print parameters and check the status of the print jobs sent. Plot sequence This chapter first explains how you can purposefully prepare a job. The following chapters contain a detained explanation of the individual steps, which are now listed in abbreviated form: 1. Start a browser program. Open the start page of RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB by entering the address in your browser. 2.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Instead of the expression , enter the server name or IP address of the computer, on which RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB runs and start the query by pressing the return key. The following window is opened: Enter the user name and the password. Only users that have been previously entered by the administrator via the user configuration are permitted access. The username "demo" and password "demo" are preset.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS If you have activate the check box in the above "start here", this page is opened straight after the log-on. In the uppermost box you will see the following information and possible settings: • Customer This is the client for whom the user has prepared the job. This information was assigned by the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB administrator and cannot be changed. • Account This information is used for billing, where this is to be produced.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS PLOTCLIENT WEB. • Language Choose the language from the list field, which you want to use in this program. The language used by the administrator in the configuration menu is preset. • Measure Here you can preset the unit of measurement that is to apply for all work with RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB. You can choose between "Millimeters" and "Inches". • Change password You can change your password, if the administrator permits editing.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS out: 1, 1, 1 - 2, 2, 2 - 3, 3, 3. • Job Plotter The RW-480 plotter is preset. As a standard, no other plotter is available for selection. • Locked print As soon as the security option is selected in a Client program, nobody can view and print this job, as long as the correct User ID has not been entered. The job has the status "Password". This function is for example if the drawings are to be kept secret.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS sent to the document server. User Name: Also give the job a user name. This additional information is particularly useful if several users send jobs to the document server. Password: If you only want your job to be printed on the plotter by you, you can protect it with a password. To do so, click on the "Change" button and enter your password twice. As soon as the plotter selects the print command for the corresponding job, the plotter will demand the password stated here.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS cess/Error. An e-mail notification "Transmission" means that an e-mail has been sent, if the RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB server has successfully included an entry in the job list. An e-mail notification "Success/Error " means successful print out or a defective processing of the job is reported. If you want to receive an email, enter the e-mail address in the respective field and activate the respective option by clicking on the check box.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS to your requirements: You can use the "Window", if you set a standard format e.g. ISO A0 and want to extend the format width and format height. First set the required format and then click in "Window". You can now change the format width and height values to meet your requirements. If you want to scale the drawing smaller, activate "Percent". You can now enter a value between 1.00 and 999.00 for the format width and height.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS fed in the plotter. • Position With the "Media Position" you set the symbolic position on the paper, if the image is to be plotted on a larger paper format. E.g. If you have a ISO A4-drawing, which is printed at its original size on ISO A1, you can enter where the drawing is position on the larger sheet for printing. • Mirror In this area you can set whether the drawing is to be mirrored or not during plotting.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS and you can match them using the "Format" setting. • Pens Set the pen settings for the drawing. These can be the default settings or individually saved pen settings. Stamp settings You can enter the following settings: • Stamp Text Enter the stamp text. You should not use any of the following characters: " " < > ; : \ • Stamp font size Choose a font size from the selection list. • Stamp Macro You can insert a macro in the stamp text.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS • Stamp Position Select a stamp position on the drawing from the list field. After you have entered all the settings, you must confirm them by clicking on the "accept" button. You can make subsequent changes for individual entries. Read chapter "Entry list", Page 132. Pen settings (pen settings) You can determine individual pen assignments for HPGL and Calcomp-drawings. Open the relevant page by clicking on the "pen settings" button.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS minimum pen width in "Pen settings" if the drawing is to be reduced in size and at least one maximum pen width if the drawing is to be enlarged • Clipping The clipping command removes the white edges on the border of the drawing. Most plotter languages differ from each other in many ways to a greater or lesser extent – including with respect to the section, which, put simply, refers to the paper size.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS "0"or the pen color as "white". • Gray (%) The pen color is selected directly beneath "Size". Activate the required pen in the list above and enter the new gray scale value. If you want to "remove" a pen, you can enter the pen color as "white" or the pen width as "0". • Change With "Change" you fix the pen settings you have just edited. The program saves your settings. Calcomp • Step size/cm The standard is 800 steps per centimeter.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS You can either let RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB determine the values or you can enter the necessary settings yourself. If the program is to determine the values, activate "Auto detection". We recommend that you do not alter the standard values if you want to enter the settings yourself. Should you nevertheless want to make a change or to find out more on the topic, compare the settings with those in your CAD system or read the following section in the "Calcomp Inc.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS width information entered in the SSL file for the entry and not the settings from the "Pens" tab. If no pen widths are defined, the program uses your settings. If you do not activate it, the program always uses your settings. • Pen Colors from File If you activate this field, you instruct the plotter to use the pen color information entered in the SSL file for the entry and not the settings in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB. If no pen widths are defined, the program uses your settings.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS • • • • A local file A Zip-archive with one or several drawings Several local files at once A Zip archive with one or several SSL-Jobs The options are described in the following chapters. Local files or ZIP-Archive (add local entry) You can add local files, which you have stored within your Intranet or computer to a job. Another option is to add ZIP archive that contains one or several drawings.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS immediately to RW-480 PLOTBASE, click on "submit job". Otherwise you can also change the settings here - see chapter "Entry list", Page 132. ZIP-Archive with SSL-job Processing such a file lends itself if a client has produced an SSL-job and wants to send it to a firm in compressed form (ZIP) via the Internet, to have it printed there.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Attention: Java Runtime Environment must be installed, so that the functions described above can be carried out. Ask your administrator, if an error occurs. After clicking on "add multiple" you will see the following window: If you want to transfer all files from a folder or several files from various directories at once, first choose "Add folder", then find the folder in the file selection. A "dummy_file" is shown as the file name.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Entry list The list of the current entries appears frequently, after you have executed the commands "accept", "cancel", and "continue". You can also open the entry list at any time by clicking on the button with the name "RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB". For new jobs without entries, a corresponding information text appears instead. The other functions of this window are described in the following chapter.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Query current job status (queue status) Open this page via the "queue status" button. This page displays the status of the print jobs that have already been transferred to RW-480 PLOTBASE. With the aid of the status information you can inform yourself of possible problems or errors during the plotting of the job concerned.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS • Medium Shows medium on the roll. • Width Shows width of the medium so that you will know, which format is given. • Type Here you get the information if tray has manual feed, medium roll or cut sheet tray. Incomplete jobs Each job remains stored in RW-480 PLOTCLIENT WEB until it has been sent. It is therefore possible that after logging on, you will be given the opportunity of reediting a job that has not yet been sent.
CORRECTIVE MAINTENANCE Corrective maintenance This chapter is primarily directed at the program administrator. Several typical editing and system errors are listed. You are also provided with suggested solutions. • Log-on not possible Check the user name in the configuration. When logging-on, the program is case-sensitive both for the User-ID as well as the password – i.e. there is a difference between upper case and lower case letters! If in doubt, ask your administrator.
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INSTALLATIONS Installations Two steps are necessary before you can begin printing with the printer driver of the Macintosh operating system Mac OS 10.3. Installation and configuration of the printer driver as well as entering the print defaults in the print dialog. To install the printer driver for Macintosh, you have to install on two computers. You have to install on the Windows computer of the RW-480 PLOTBASE server and on the Macintosh PC.
INSTALLATIONS 5. Specify the spool folder of the lpr-print system with "c:\spool\cfg" as via "Start – Settings – Printers – WINPRINT – Properties – Ports – Configure Ports" Installation on the Macintosh computer 1. Start your Internet browser. 2. Open "http:///tools/PLOTCLIENT_MAC". 3. Save the file "RW-480.ppd" with Drag & Drop on the Macintosh Desktop. 4. Open the window "System Preferences" by clicking on the icon "System Preferences" in the symbol bar. 5.
PRINT JOBS AND PRESETS Print jobs and presets After completing the above installations, you can send print jobs from any software to the plotter RW-480 via RW-480 PLOTBASE. Whenever you want to send a print job, e.g. from a graphics program, open the menu item "File – Print". Enter the print parameters to be sent with the plot. If you always want to use the same print parameters you can save them as presets or default values.
PRINT JOBS AND PRESETS Off: X: Y: XY: The drawing is not mirrored when plotted. The drawing is mirrored horizontally. The drawing is mirrored vertically. The drawing is mirrored about both axes simultaneously; equates to a 180° rotation. You usually use these settings if the drawing has been scanned and saved with mirror inversion. This is especially important if a translucence has been scanned with mirror inversion to increase the contrast.
PRINT JOBS AND PRESETS • Input tray You can select one of the plotter rolls listed. In addition, you can also select from the "Automatic" or "Manual" options. The "Automatic" option means that the plotter itself selects a suitable roll, which matches the prescribed format. The "Manual" option means that you feed the print medium into the input tray yourself. • Output tray You have two possible options to choose from for your plots on the plotter: Front (output at the front) and rear (output at the rear).
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RW-480 PLOTCLIENT LPR RW-480 PLOTCLIENT LPR With the lpr protocol or command, you can send print jobs to an RW-480 PLOTBASE via the RW-480 WINPRINT without having to use an application program. It also only requires a few presets and one command line. This printing option is especially intended for UNIX users. Configuration on Server PC with Windows 1. Start your Windows computer with RW-480 PLOTBASE as the administrator. 2.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT LPR 1. Open the Prompt on the Windows computer of RW-480 PLOTBASE. 2. Change to the folder containing the files to be printed. 3. Enter the following command: lpr –S %computer name% –P WINPRINT –o l -S = -P = -o l = server name name of the enabled plotter binary mode If you send a file without print parameters to RW-480 PLOTBASE, the RW-480 PLOTBASE basic settings are used.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT LPR lp | remote printer on :\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :rm=:\ :rm=:\ :bk:sh:mx#0: 5. Restart the print service. For SuSE>= V6.4 "rclpd restart". Print jobs on UNIX using lpr If you have entered all the settings described above, you can use the lpr command as follows to send print jobs to the RW480 PLOTBASE via RW-480 WINPRINT: 1. Open the prompt on the UNIX computer. 2.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT FTP RW-480 PLOTCLIENT FTP You can use the ftp protocol or command to send print jobs to RW-480 PLOTBASE without having to use an application program. It also only requires a few presets and one command line. This printing option is especially intended for UNIX users. Configuration on Server PC with Windows 1. Start your Windows computer with RW-480 PLOTBASE as the administrator. 2.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT FTP 9. If you want to print several files at once, enter the following command: mput ... = mput graphics.tif city.plt 10. If a file comes from another folder than the current folder, enter the path as well as the file name, as shown in the following: mput \ = mput graphics.tif tmp\city.plt If you send a file without print parameters to RW-480 PLOTBASE, the RW-480 PLOTBASE basic settings are used.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT FTP use the ftp command as follows to send print jobs to the RW480 PLOTBASE via RW-480 WINPRINT: 1. Open the prompt on the UNIX computer. 2. Change to the folder containing the files to be printed. 3. Enter the command "ftp [computer name or computer-IP]". The system changes to the ftp subsystem and sets up a network link to the required computer. 4. You are now asked for the name of the user. Enter "anonymous" and confirm with the return key. 5.
RW-480 PLOTCLIENT FTP Attention: Always send the CFG or SSL file with your print parameters first, then send the graphic file. Otherwise there is a risk that RW-480 PLOTBASE begins to print your file before it has received your own print parameters for the print (CFG or SSL file): mput graphics.cfg graphics.
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INDEX Index BMP .................... 19, 20, 71 Calcomp ............. 19, 20, 71 colors .......................... 65 fill pattern .................... 68 grey scale .................... 64 ignore pen size ............ 66 misc ............................ 66 pen color ..................... 63 pen settings ................. 67 pen size ....................... 63 pen source................... 66 pens ............................ 63 scale pens.................... 66 synchronization ............ 68 CALS.......
INDEX sizes ............................ 55 PLOTCLIENT FTP UNIX config ............... 147 UNIX print.................. 148 Windows 2000 config 146 Windows print............ 146 PLOTCLIENT HDI Document server .......... 99 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI AutoCAD 13/14........... 93 AutoCAD 2000 ............ 94 border ......................... 97 configuration ............... 93 copies.......................... 97 cut mode ..................... 98 formats........................ 97 HPGL/2 Plotter .............
INDEX copies.......................... 36 customer...................... 35 delete .......................... 37 distribution................... 35 document server........... 39 email........................... 36 file formats .................. 18 job compress ............... 28 job editor..................... 34 job flag sheet ............... 36 locked print.................. 37 notes ........................... 35 output.......................... 37 page order .................. 36 plotter..............
