Part III – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI RW-470 CLIENTS 75
INTRODUCTION Introduction RW-470 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 2000 LT or AutoCAD 2000 LTi. The print jobs can be sent to the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN program or directly to the RW-470 PLOTBASE server program. Further settings can be made there, before the print jobs are sent to the RW-470 plotter. In the following, the installation is described first.
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-470 PLOTBASE: \\\Tools\PLOTCLIENT_HDI_ADI\ Start the installation by double clicking on the “Setup.exe” file in the folder “PLOTCLIENT_HDI_ADI“. The installation program is started. Proceed as follows: 1.
INSTALLATION 3. In the next window read the license terms and confirm with "Yes": 4. In the following window read some latest information about RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI: 5.
INSTALLATION 6. In the new window you are asked to confirm the path of the target folder for the program that is given or to choose your own target folder: If you wish to save the program in another target folder save, click on the “Browse“ button and choose a folder. Confirm your selection. Continue with the installation by clicking on “Next“. 7.
INSTALLATION lected file name picked by the AutoCAD program on printing: 8. A new window opens, in which you can confirm the suggested folder name for the program or enter your own name: Click on “Next“ to continue the installation program. 9. In the new window all the directories for the installation are listed again.
INSTALLATION 10. In this window you are informed that the installation is completed. If you have installed AutoCAD 13 or 14 and like to start the configuration now, please let check box activated: 11. If you have opened AutoCAD, you must first close it to carry out the specific configuration for AutoCAD 13/14, that will be described in the following chapter.
INSTALLATION The following chapter explains the configuration of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI.
CONFIGURATION Configuration To configure RW-470 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 print job. If you take RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN, you can add several other print jobs to your current print job and have the same presets for all. • Select AutoCAD version If you work with one of the two AutoCAD versions R13 or R14, inform RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN which Version you use. • Configuration If AutoCAD 13 has not been installed with the standard paths, inform RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WIN the two paths in which the configuration file “ACADNT.cfg“ and initialization file “ACAD.ini“ are.
CONFIGURATION 7. If you have preset in the configuration tool, that you want to use RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI to edit your print jobs and when you start your first print job the window „Enter spool directory“ will be opened. Enter here the spool path of the server program RW-470 PLOTBASE as follows: \\\Spool\cfg If required the spool path can be changed again in the section „Option“ of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT HDI/ADI. 8.
CONFIGURATION that you would have the opportunity to prematurely abort. • Raster gamma correction: With the gamma correction, to put it simply, you set the brightness of the print. The gamma correction can be used in all plotters, which work with raster data. You can set a value between 1 and 5, whereby 5 means the greatest brightness.
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 three tabs: • Main menu • Extended • Options “Main menu“ 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 unused, activate “Format“. The plotter then always cuts to the next 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.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS print out can only be started at the server RW-470 PLOTBASE, if the correct password has been entered. • Priority Set the priority of the print job. If several print jobs are in the queue, the job with the highest priority is plotted first. • Delete file after print Activate this option, if the job is to be deleted immediately following successful print out. • Sample Print Activate this option, if you want to check the quality of a print off.
PRESETS FOR PRINT JOBS 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. • Default CFG When the plot job is written, the CFG commands from this file are first written to this file and then the values that have been set in the windows. In this way, special properties of plotters can be supported. The CFG file can be entered directly in the text field or selected with the “Find” button.
Part IV – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB 92 RW-470 CLIENTS
INTRODUCTION Introduction The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB enables you to send print jobs to RW-470 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-470 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 current version of a browser program. Use the Microsoft Internet Explorer. We recommend at least Version 5.5. The installation of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB has already been carried out on the RW-470 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.
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 word “admin“. You should change this password (see chapter “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 • Set user’s jobs in queue to wait This option is particularly advantageous for users who want to send their print jobs via the Internet. Here the administrator can 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.
CONFIGURATION Set spool path (upload) The job and drawing files of RW-470 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 RW-470 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-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB and for RW-470 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 RW-470 PLOTBASE.
CONFIGURATION 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-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB is, but is to be saved on another computer, use a UNC path entry. If you want to print off this log-file and the log-file information for each job is to be printed on a separate page, activate the option “Page break (FF) attach“ by clicking on the check box.
CONFIGURATION Administrator password (admin) Access to the configuration pages is usually via the fixed defined “admin“ account using the password “admin“. The user ID and password can be set individually on the following page, which you open by clicking on the “administrator“ button: Enter the user name and the password in the fields. The password must be confirmed. All entries are confirmed with “accept“. The access ID of the administrator does not permit access to the job processing.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Prepare print jobs In the editing windows of RW-470 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-470 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-470 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-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB administrator and cannot be changed. • Account This information is used for billing, where this is to be produced.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS • User name In this field the name of the employee who collated the plot job and sent it for printing to RW-470 PLOTBASE is displayed. This name can only be changed by the administrator of RW-470 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. • Change password You can change your password, if the administrator permits editing.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS is not sorted, the complete number of entries is printed out: 1, 1, 1 - 2, 2, 2 - 3, 3, 3. • Job Plotter The RW-470 plotter is preset. As a standard, no other plotter is available for selection. • Locked print As soon as the security option is selected n 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 After you have entered all the settings, confirm them by clicking on the “accept“ button. Print parameters for entries (entry defaults) The print parameters can be fixed in the “entry defaults“ window. It is opened by clicking on the button with the same name. Attention: The print parameters only apply for newly added entries. If you change the print parameters in the middle, they only apply for the new entries, but not for the existing entries.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS 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. X = format width Y = format height If you want to retain the size ratio of the drawing, activate the option “Maintain aspect“. • Border If you want a white border around the drawing plot, activate the “ON“ field and enter the required spacing for all side borders. You can choose between the size units mm, inches and pixels.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS 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. This is especially important if a transparency has been scanned with mirror inversion to increase the contrast • Rotate Here you can set whether the drawing is to be rotated or not during plotting. Rotations of 0°, 90°, 180° and 270° are possible.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS • 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. If for example you want a date in a stamp, choose the macro with the same name. If you select a macro, it is inserted at the end of the stamp text.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS and thus the pen settings in the print parameters (“entry defaults“). The selection is made in the “pens” list field. HPGL • Step size/cm The standard is 400 steps per centimeter. The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB therefore enters 400 as a default value, which does not normally have to be altered. Nevertheless, it is sometimes advisable to ask the customer what step number per centimeter they are used to working with to guarantee plot consistency.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS activate the check box, the drawing is printed in exactly the same way as it was printed on the “HP DesignJet“ plotter. However, undesirable printing results can result, if the plotter language of your plotter differs greatly from that of the “HP DesignJet“.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Calcomp • Step size/cm The standard is 800 steps per centimeter. The RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB therefore enters 800 as a default value, which does not normally have to be altered. Nevertheless, it is sometimes advisable to ask the customer what step number per centimeter they are used to working with to guarantee plot consistency.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS “CALCOMP - ONLINE REFERENCE MANUAL“ in the section “Data Message Format“.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS settings in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB. If no pen widths are defined, the program uses your settings. If you do not activate it, the program always uses your settings. • Size Enter the pen widths directly via the keyboard in the box left of “Size“. Activate the pen required in the list above and enter the new pen width. The valid size unit is “mm“. If you want to “remove“ a pen, you can enter the pen width as “0“or the pen color as “white“.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS 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. RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB can unpack the Zip archive and include the drawings as entries in the entry list. First open the corresponding editing window by clicking on the button “add local entry“. The window that you used to set the print parameters opens.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS Note: An SSL-file contains print parameters for the print out, which can be read and interpreted by the RW470 PLOTCLIENT WIN and RW-470 PLOTBASE programs. However, only SSL-jobs that have been previously produced by the client in RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB can be read. This program can produce compressed SSL-jobs. The firm can accept the SSL job in the ZIP archive SSL-job with the aid of RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB and pass it directly on to RW-470 PLOTBASE.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS 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. After you have clicked on “Open“, the files contained in the folder are then listed in the window. If you also want to add a single file, click on “Add file“, find the file in the file selection dialog and confirm with “Open“.
PREPARE PRINT JOBS For new jobs without entries, a corresponding information text appears instead. The other functions of this window are described in the following chapter. Edit and delete entries (select, delete) Until you send off the whole job, it is always possible to change the settings of the individual job items again. You can no longer change the entries file (the local drawing file), as there is already a copy on the RW-470 PLOTCLIENT WEB Server.
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-470 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-470 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.
Part V – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT MAC RW-470 CLIENTS 123
INSTALLATIONS Installations Two steps are necessary before you can begin printing with the printer driver of the Macintosh operating system Mac OS 9.x. 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 2000 computer of the RW-470 PLOTBASE server and on the Macintosh PC.
INSTALLATIONS 3. Save the file “RW-470.ppd” with Drag & Drop on the Macintosh Desktop. 4. Open the “New” window via “Macintosh HD – Application – Utility”. 5. Select “LaserWriter 8“. 6. Select “Create Printer Symbol for TCP/IP printer“ and confirm with “OK“. 7. Change the PPD file in the file “RW-470.ppd” already saved on the Macintosh via the button “Change”. 8. In the same window, change the TCP/IP printer.
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-470 via RW-470 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 transparency 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.
PRINT JOBS AND PRESETS • Delete after plot If you activate this option, the job is deleted again by RW-470 PLOTBASE immediately after printing.
Part VI – RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR/FTP 130 RW-470 CLIENTS
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR With the lpr protocol or command, you can send print jobs to an RW-470 PLOTBASE via the RW-470 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 2000 1. Start your Windows 2000 computer with RW-470 PLOTBASE as the administrator. 2.
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR Print jobs with lpr on Windows 2000 If you have entered all the settings described above, you can use the lpr command as follows to send print jobs to RW-470 PLOTBASE via the RW-470 WINPRINT: 1. Open the Prompt on the Windows 2000 computer of RW470 PLOTBASE. 2. Change to the folder containing the files to be printed. 3.
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT LPR 470 PLOTBASE and copy the file “printcap_sample“ to UNIX as the file “/etc/printcap“. 4. Adjust this file “/etc/printcap“ to your network environment. The end of the file should include more or less the following: lp | remote printer on :\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :rm=:\ :bk:sh:mx#0: 5. Restart the print service. For SuSE>= V6.4 “rclpd restart“.
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP You can use the ftp protocol or command to send print jobs to RW-470 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 2000 1. Start your Windows 2000 computer with RW-470 PLOTBASE as the administrator. 2.
RW-470 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-470 PLOTBASE, the RW-470 PLOTBASE basic settings are used.
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP Print jobs on UNIX using ftp If you have entered all the settings described above, you can use the ftp command as follows to send print jobs to the RW-470 PLOTBASE via RW-470 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.
RW-470 PLOTCLIENT FTP send the CFG file, which must have the same name as the graphic file, and then send the graphic file itself! 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-470 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 .....................18, 19, 62 Calcomp ..............18, 19, 62 colors............................56 fill pattern .....................59 grey scale .....................55 ignore pen size..............57 misc..............................57 pen color ......................55 pen settings...................58 pen size ........................55 pen source ....................57 pens .............................55 scale pens.....................57 synchronization .............59 CALS .....
INDEX entry level .....................38 Manual conventions............9 Name conventions client.............................17 draftsman .....................18 entry .............................17 jobs ..............................17 ssl file ...........................18 user ..............................17 PCX......................18, 19, 62 Pen settings changes ........................47 colors............................49 grey scale .....................49 HPGL/2 ........................
INDEX response queue.............99 rotate..........................109 sample print................106 spool path.....................98 stamp settings .............109 user access ...................96 zip archives .................116 PLOTCLIENT WIN chart .............................20 file formats....................18 harddrive ......................12 hardware ......................12 job compress ................26 job editor ......................30 monitor.........................12 network......
