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XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Table of Contents Trademark Acknowledgments ......................................................... i Introduction...................................................................................... 1 Purpose of this Guide ..................................................................... 1 Basic Requirements........................................................................ 1 How to Use this Guide ..............
Introduction 4. Click OK on the Print Screen to print your job. 5. If you no longer need the driver, remove the driver as stated in the Removing the Driver section of this Guide. Purpose of this Guide The purpose of this Guide is to assist you with instructions for installing a PostScript Print Driver, adjusting the Print Driver’s settings to meet your needs, printing with the Print Driver, and removing the driver when it is no longer needed.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Before You Start Note: In a network environment, with communication occurring directly between the individual workstation and the printer, you MUST check your protocol and printer port. If you are printing through a direct connection (such as through the serial or parallel port), you can skip this step.
Before You Start Printing a PRINTER CONFIGURATION Test Print To check the communication settings of the printer, print a PRINTER CONFIGURATION Test Print as follows: • While the Printer is NOT printing, from the Web PMT, accessed through a web browser installed on your workstation, select PRINTER DEFAULTS, TEST PRINT. • Select the Minimal button to get a Configuration test print. • Select the Back arrow to return to the Test Print choices screen.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Driver Installation Driver File Format This PostScript driver is typically delivered in Zip file format in multiple languages on CD ROM at the time that new Firmware is released. However, this driver can also be downloaded in self-extracting Zip file format from the Internet at http://www.xes.com. If downloaded from the Internet, double click on the appropriate file (AccXES70_PS_NT_ENU.
Driver Installation (continued) Driver Installation Procedure 1. On the Windows desktop, use your mouse to select “Start,” “Settings,” “Printers” and “Add Printer.” 2. Select the My Computer radio button unless you will be printing to the printer through a Network Server (as in the case of Novell NetWare, for example) in which case you should select Network printer server. Click Next. 3.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Driver Configuration Accessing the Printer Properties Dialog From your Desktop, click “Start,” “Settings,” and “Printers” to open the Printers Window revealing a representative icon for your PostScript printer. From this window, if you right mouse click on the PostScript printer icon, then left mouse click on Properties, you will open the Printer Properties dialog (set of tabbed screens) shown on the next page of this Guide.
Driver Configuration (Printer Properties Dialog) Printer Properties Dialog Tabs The following is a list of the Tabs of the Printer Properties Dialog containing numerous printer parameters that can be set as the print processing defaults for ALL print jobs by left mouse clicking on the appropriate tab and making the available selections. • General Tab – Click “Print Test Page” to print a test page. Other buttons are not supported at this time.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide 8 Driver Configuration (Printer Properties Dialog) Device Settings Parameters The Device Settings tab of the Printer Properties dialog contains a number of configurable device settings. Form to Tray Assignment Manual Feed Setting - Lets you set the size of the manual feed option on the printer if the printer is so equipped. It is recommended that you leave this setting at the default of letter.
Parameters of the Device Settings Tab (continued) Output Protocol – Specifies the output format. It is recommended that you leave this setting at the default of ASCII. Add Euro Currency Symbol to PostScript Fonts – This setting adds the euro currency symbol to most PostScript fonts. Job Timeout - Leave this setting at the default of 0 seconds. Wait Timeout Leave this setting at the default of 300 seconds.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Driver Configuration (Document Properties Dialog) Accessing the Document Properties Dialog Select “File,” “Print,” within a desktop application (such as Microsoft Word, or PageMaker, for example) to display the Print Screen which typically lets you select your printer, number of copies to be printed, and range of pages to be printed.
Driver Configuration (Document Properties Dialog) Document Properties Dialog Tabs This dialog consists of three Tabs: the Page Setup Tab, the Advanced Tab and the Job Tab. Select a Tab, change any parameters to the settings desired, then click the OK button for your changes to take effect and to return you to the application Print screen. Advanced Tab Parameters PAPER/OUTPUT PARAMETERS Paper Size This parameter displays the currently-selected paper size.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Document Properties Dialog (Advanced Tab Parameters) Orientation This parameter displays the currently-selected orientation of the printed document on the page. To change the printed document orientation, left mouse click on Orientation and make a selection from the available radio buttons in the bottom dialog box. Portrait prints the document vertically on the page. Landscape prints the document horizontally on the page.
Document Properties Dialog (Advanced Tab Parameters) TrueType Font Copy Count This parameter displays the currently-selected number of copies to print. To change the Copy Count, left mouse click on Copy Count and enter a selection from 1 to 999 in the entry box supplied in the bottom dialog box. Note that although the driver supports 9999 copies, the printer is restricted to a maximum count of 999. The default copy count is 1.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Document Properties Dialog (Advanced Tab Parameters) DOCUMENT OPTIONS PARAMETERS PAGE LAYOUT (N-UP) OPTION Click on this option to reveal a selection box specifying how many pages of your document to print on a single piece of media. Make your selection and click OK. The default setting is Normal (one up). Note: This feature may be incompatible with some applications.
Document Properties Dialog (Advanced Tab Parameters) PostScript Language Level At the default value of 3, the driver displays the highest PostScript language level supporting the maximum features of the printer. A lower level (2) may resolve some printing problems, but at a cost of fewer supported printer features. Send PostScript Error Handler With a default of Yes, this parameter specifies whether an error page will be generated when an error is detected in the print job.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Document Properties Dialog (Advanced Tab Parameters) ACCXES OPTIONS About AccXES Plug-In Select this option and click the "About AccXES Plug In" button to display a screen informing you of the version number of the XES features created to work with this PostScript driver. Printer Accounting Note: This feature is meant to work with the Job Accounting parameters set up by your System Administrator.
Document Properties Dialog (Job Tab Parameters) Job Tab Parameters BANNER PAGE This option allows you to determine whether a banner page is printed before or after your job. You can also select Printer Defaults to let banner page printing be determined by the parameters stored in the printer's Controller, as set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool. The default driver setting is None, meaning that no banner page is specified.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Document Properties Dialog (Job Tab Parameters) RASTER STAMP This option allows you to determine if a raster stamp will be applied to your print job. You can select None, Printer default, or User defined. None means that no stamp is specified by the driver. Printer Default uses the default raster stamp stored in the Controller, if a default stamp was previously set up using the Web Printer Manager Tool.
Document Properties Dialog (Job Tab Parameters) FINISHING Note: If you do not have a Finishing (.fin) File installed, "Folder bypass" will be displayed in gray and any other options will be unavailable for selection. Single Job creates a plot nest restricted to the contents of your current job. Plots from other job sources will not be intermixed with plots from your job. If you select Single Job, the Settings… button will be enabled.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Document Properties Dialog (Job Tab Parameters) MEDIA MISMATCH Working with the Media Mismatch Mode parameters set up by your System Administrator using the Web Printer Manager Tool, you can select one of four available options to determine how you would like to handle mismatches between your job’s media type, or size, and media types, or sizes, installed in the printer.
Page Setup Tab Parameters The Page Setup Tab is a more graphically pleasing display of a limited number of the many parameters available for setting on the Advanced Tab of the Document Properties dialog. The parameters displayed on this Tab include: • • • • • Paper Size Paper Source Copy Count & Collate Copies Orientation Color Appearance For full details on the setting of these parameters, see the previously presented information in the Advanced Tab section of this Guide. Figure 6.
XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850/8855 Windows NT 4.0 PostScript Print Driver User Guide Feature Enhancements in Support of PostScript Printing Because the PostScript driver does not currently support all of the numerous printing features available with the Controller, the following table shows additional printing features that can be set as job processing defaults with the Web Printer Manager Tool on a networked workstation.
Removing the Driver 1. To remove the PostScript Print Driver, from the Windows NT 4.0 desktop click on “Start,” “Settings,” “Printers.” 2. Right click on the icon representing your PostScript printer. 3. Select Delete from the drop down menu. 4. Click Yes when prompted. This will remove the PostScript Print Driver from your Windows NT 4.0 operating system. 5.
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