Primera Technology 090709-510963-(01) manual

090709-510963-(01) USER’S MANUAL For Macintosh and PC Automated Optical Disc Duplication & Printing System AUTOPRINTER TM Automated Optical Disc Duplication & Printing System © 2009 All rights reserved *after registering your product. See www.primerawarranty.com for terms and conditions.[...]

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Getting Started 1 Section 1: Getting Started THANK Y OU… ...for purchasing the Disc Publisher SE. Disc publisher is the perfect all-in-one solution for producing pr ofessional looking CD-R and DVD-R discs. A wide variety of disc formats are sup- ported, including audio CDs, V ideo Cds, data discs and more. Operation is simple and completely autom[...]

2 Getting Started B. UNP ACKING AND INSPECTION While unpacking your Publisher , inspect the carton to ensur e that no damage has occurred during shipping. Make sur e that all supplied accessories are included with your unit. The following items should be included: 〈 Disc Publisher 〈 Power Cord and Converter 〈 One Three-Color (CMY) Ink Cartrid[...]

Getting Started 3 C. IDENTIFYING THE P ARTS F ront Panel and T op This illustration shows the Publisher and its components. The Robotic Disc T ransporter moves discs from the Input Bin, to a CD/DVD Recorder , to the printer , and finally to the Output Bin. The CD/DVD Recorder is automatically loaded and unloaded by the Publisher's Robotic Disc[...]

4 Getting Started W ith the cover closed, the Power/Ink Button turns the Publisher's power OFF if pressed and held for five seconds. Press it quickly to turn power back on. When alr eady powered on quickly pressing the power button will open and close the printer tray . When the front cover is opened, the Power/Ink Button is used to position t[...]

Getting Started 5 D. PC SY STEM REQUIREMENTS Before getting started, it is important for you to verify that your PC meets the minimum system requir ements. Here's what you need in order to successfully copy discs at 8x or above with the PTPublisher software: 〈 700 MHz or faster Pentium III/IV processor r unning W indows 2000 or XP . 〈 512 [...]

6 Getting Started F . O VERVIEW OF OPERA TION Y our new Publisher is an automated, precision device intended for continuous-duty publishing of discs. The following is a description of the complete process of duplicating and printing a CD/DVD job on your Publisher: 1. Up to 20 blank discs may be loaded at one time into the Input Bin. 2. The Publishe[...]

Getting Started 7 7. Once recor ding has started on the next round, printing will start with the recor ded disc from the pr evious round. This simultaneous printing and recor ding greatly incr eases the throughput of your Publisher . 8. Print time varies according to which print mode has been selected (Section 3-A). In most cases, print time takes [...]

8 Hardware and Softwar e Setup Section 2: Hardware and Software Setup Setup This section will describe the step-by-step process of setting up your Publisher . This includes information on how to load the supplies (ink and disc media) necessary to start producing discs. A. INST ALLING THE PC SOFTWARE The Installer Disc has a menu that will guide you[...]

Hardware and Softwar e Setup 9 d. The volume containing the operating system should be selected for installation. Click the Continue button. All components will be installed to their proper locations. e. Once the installation has completed, click Quit . Y ou have successfully installed all the necessary software! Section C below will describe how t[...]

10 Hardware and Softwar e Setup Refer to the following steps when loading discs in to the Publisher: 〈 Open the front cover of the Publisher 〈 The Publisher will automatically position the cartridge carrier and Robotic Disc T ransporter to allow for easy access to the bin. 〈 Load the Input Bin (the bin located on the right-hand side of the Pu[...]

Hardware and Softwar e Setup 11 Step 3: Connecting the USB 2.0 Cable Connect the Publisher to your PC or Mac with your beige USB 2.0 Cable. If you are using a PC, after a few moments, W indows will tell you it has found new hardwar e and is looking for software to install it. Select " Install the software automatically " and click Next . [...]

12 Hardware and Softwar e Setup When connecting USB to a Mac it may be necessary to Add the printer via the Printer Setup Utility . 1. Open the Printer Setup Utility located in the Applications - Utilities folder . 2. Click Add . Select the Disc Publisher XRP fr om the list of available printers. Click Add again.[...]

Hardware and Softwar e Setup 13 Step 4: Installing the Ink Car tridge 〈 W ith the cover open, press the Power/Ink Button to move the Ink Cartridge Carrier to the load position. 〈 Open the cartridge cover by pressing down on the tab. 〈 Remove the ink cartridge from its packaging. 〈 Slowly remove the tape covering the cartridge's print h[...]

14 Creating Discs on a PC Section 3: Creating Discs on a PC There ar e two main components to creating discs, printing and burning. SureThing CD Labeler is used to design the printing on your discs. PTPublisher controls the r ecording and allows you to select the image to be printed to your discs. Both applications will be described in detail in th[...]

Creating Discs on a PC 15 3 . The Publisher will close the drive and read the contents of the disc. It will display disc type (CD/DVD) and show the size of the disc in Megabytes. V erify this information is correct and click the next arr ow to continue. 4. Select the print label file by clicking the select a label button. When you have selected pri[...]

16 Creating Discs on a PC 4A2 - Double Click on the file to add it to your project. Y ou may add any BMP , JPG or SureThing (.std) file. SureThing files ar e automatically formated correctly . BMP or JPG files should be 4.72" x 4.72" square. For best print quality the image resolution should be atleast 300 dpi. Use the tabs on the bottom [...]

Creating Discs on a PC 17 Choose the 120mm DiscT emplate from the window that appears. Using the buttons on the left navigation window , you may add your own background, choose a pre-made backgr ound, choose from several text effects or insert a pictur e. Click the down arrow on the button to view all options. Once you have designed the label go to[...]

18 Creating Discs on a PC 5. Y ou can edit the print settings for this file by changing the settings that appear . Several preset media types that correspond with the media availabe at our webstore ar e available from the Media dr op down box. When you select a media type from this box the Print Quality , Outer Margin and Inner Diameter are automat[...]

Creating Discs on a PC 19 B. USING PTPUBLISHER The PTPublisher program is divided into six ar eas. Refer to the following for a description of each area. 1. Open Project Panel This panel allows you to open a previously saved pr oject. It will also display the last few saved projects. T o open or close this or any panel click on the down or up arrow[...]

20 Creating Discs on a PC 4. R obot Status P anel This panel displays a picture of curr ently connected robot. The current status is also displayed. Important err ors such as low ink will be displayed here. Click " more status " to view status regar ding the printer , r ecorder drive, curr ently running jobs and job history log. 5. Status[...]

Creating Discs on a PC 21 C. CREA TING A PRINT LABEL USING SURETHING The SureThing Disc Labeler softwar e included with your Publisher is a great tool for cr eating professional looking discs. Y ou can use SureThing's Smart Designs to quickly label a disc, or easily import your own design in many popular file formats. The Help section included[...]

4A. Open the text panel by clicking the arrow on the text button. Add text by selecting one of the options below . T o cr eate text that follows the curve of the disc choose Add Circular T ext. 4B. Y ou may also choose from several SureThing smart designs. These design templates automatically position your text and use certain text effects to give [...]

Creating Discs on a PC 23 Click on the Disc Publisher SE icon with the right mouse button and select Printing Preferences . NOTE: The PTPublisher application allows you to adjust some of these set- ting directly thr ough the Add a Print file screen in that application. In PTPublisher you also have the option to Use Driver Defaults. If this option i[...]

24 Creating Discs on a PC Paper Size The paper size option will be set to CD for printing onto printable surface CDs and DVDs. The remaining options apply if you have purchased the business car d adapter kit. Non-printable Outer Mar gin Adjust this value to print all the way to the outer edge of a CD. This is useful if you are printing full coverag[...]

Creating Discs on a PC 25 NOTE: Exact color matching of the printed discs to the screen may never be possible since there ar e factors that affect this out of the drivers control. The surface of the disc r eacts with the ink in the cartridge to produce the color . For this reason, when printing the same image to different types of discs with differ[...]

26 Creating Discs on a PC Center T he Print Image NOTE: Y our printer comes from the factory pre-calibrated to print the image in the center of the CD. Y ou can use this adjustment if you need to fine-tune this location. If you ever wish to verify your factory-calibrated V ertical and Horizontal calibration settings, you can run a simple calibratio[...]

Creating Discs on a PC 27 5. Along the V ertical axis of the printed disc, find the number whose lines touch. For example, in the above illustration, Enter the number 2 into the V ertical box of the Calibration window and 0 for the Horizontal axis. 6. Select the OK button. Y our images should now be centered when printed on a disc. After your selec[...]

28 Creating Discs on a PC Details Select the Details button for information on the drivers, firmware, alignment and number of discs printed with your Publisher . Click Reset Factory Default to set all print centering and cartridge alignment settings back to factory defaults. Enable Bi-di Printing Set this option to Y es for faster printing that req[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 29 Section 4: Creating Discs on a Mac A. TUT ORIAL: COPY A CD OR D VD 1. Double click the Discribe Icon to launch the program. Y ou will see a splash screen followed by Discribe's Quick Start Menu. 2. Click the Copy a CD/DVD button. 3. Place your master disc in the Publisher Drive. Important! Y ou must place your master[...]

30 Creating Discs on a Mac 4. Select the drive that contains your master as the source drive. 5. Click the Burn… button 6. The Robot W rite Options window contains selections to help you control the printing of the image, number of discs, recor ding options and more. 7. Click the Print Image on Discs button to enable printing. This will enable ot[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 31 9. YOU MUST CLICK Page Setup and set Format For to Disc Publisher SE! Also set the option to select a paper size to correspond with the type of disc you are using. 10. Print Settings will launch the Printer Driver settings when clicked. These settings are described in detail in Section 4-D of this manual. 1 1. Select the [...]

32 Creating Discs on a Mac B. USING DISCRIBE 5.3 B.1 Star ting a Pr oject The initial Discribe starter window provides 3 pr oject types: Audio CD, Data CD and Copy CD / DVD. Choose one. Many more pr ojects are available once the data picker window is open. Once you are in one of the main thr ee project types you may choose any of the other availabl[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 33 Universal Disk Format (UDF). Use this project type to cr eate a data DVD for a Mac and a PC. DVD V ideo/Audio. This project type can be used to cr eate DVD videos from pr operly formatted V ideo_TS and Audio_TS folders on your hard drive. Note: V ideo_TS and Audio_TS folders must first be created by a DVD authoring pr ogr[...]

34 Creating Discs on a Mac B.4 Queue Pr ojects T o queue a project choose the Queue Job button at the bottom of the Data Picker window instead of the Burn button. If you have not yet saved your project, you will be pr ompted to do so at this time. The Robot W rite W indow described in section 4B.5 will be displayed. Once you choose your print file [...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 35 B.5 Robot Write Window For any project Use the Robot W rite W indow to choose the print file, change print quality settings and choose the number of copies in a project. Print settings ar e explained in more detail in section 4D. Other settings on this screen can usually be left at their default values. Important Note: Fo[...]

36 Creating Discs on a Mac C. PRINTED LABEL FORMA T REQUIREMENTS Y our printer driver allows you to create labels in most any graphics application. The driver will center the image and automatically crop it to the shape of a CD. This means you do not necessarily need a template to create a CD in your favorite graphics program. Simply cr eate a cust[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 37 D. AD V ANCED PRINTER DRIVER FUNCTIONS The following section will examine the printer driver settings that affect the print quality of your discs. While the default settings will fit most printing needs, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with these settings to optimize your print quality . The printer driver setti[...]

38 Creating Discs on a Mac Print Settings Click Print Settings to see the driver window and all of its settings. Click the Copies and Pages button and select Publisher Settings option in the drop-down menu to see the full pane and access all the printer driver settings. The following is a description of the printer driver settings: • Print Qualit[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 39 Photo mode is best used for photographic images where accurate color repr oduction is very essential. Images printed in this mode will look lighter than those printed in Photo mode. Skin tones especially will look more natural in this mode. NOTE: Exact color matching of the printed discs to the screen may never be possibl[...]

40 Creating Discs on a Mac • Restore Defaults The Restore Defaults button will r estore the driver settings to the factory defaults. • Config Utility This button launches the Configuration Utility . The Configuration Utility is a program that installs with your Publisher software. This utility allows you to monitor ink levels, maintain and cali[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 41 Y ou will see the Color Ink Level is displayed. The Color Ink Level repr esents the lowest color in your cartridge. For instance, if your cartridge has 80% cyan 50% yellow and 65% magenta ink remaining, the level r eported would be 50%. Y ou will also see the following buttons: Clean Car tridge A cartridge that sits idle [...]

42 Creating Discs on a Mac Image Alignment The Image Alignment button will allow you to nudge the image up, down, left, or right on your disc. T o center the image, click the Image Alignment button. Y ou will be prompted with a choice to print a test print or simply enter val- ues to nudge the image alignment on the disc. If you do not know the dir[...]

Creating Discs on a Mac 43 Once the print has finished, you will see the following dialog box: Look at the finished alignment disc and pick the numbers that come closest to lining up with one another . For instance, on the disc shown in this manual, the vertical alignment is 2 and the horizontal alignment is 0. Enter this in the alignment dialog bo[...]

44 Maintenance and T roubleshooting Section 5: Maintenace and T roubleshooting A. INTERPRETING THE PUBLISHER’S INDICA T OR LIGHTS The Power/Ink button can tell you what is happening inside the Publisher . Please r efer to the following: Power/Ink Button Publisher Fast Flashing The Publisher is initializing.Y ou will see this pattern when the Publ[...]

Maintenance and T roubleshooting 45 C. PERFORMING A ROBO TIC SELF-TEST T o ensure that everything is working properly , a Self-T est feature is built in to your Publisher . In this mode, the Robotic Disc T ransporter will go through the motions of picking and placing a disc to ensure pr oper working order . This test may be performed without connec[...]

46 Maintenance and T roubleshooting E. TECHNICAL SUPPORT If you have difficulties in operating your Publisher , the procedur es in this manual and the software User's Guide should, in most cases, solve the problem. If you still have difficulty , contact the technical support number listed on the insert included in the supply pack that came wit[...]

T echnical Specifications 47 Section 6: T echnical Specifications Model Optical Disc Publisher SE Configurations DVD+/-R Publisher Printing Method Ink-Jet Printing Resolution 4800 x 1200 dpi, 2400 x 1200 dpi, 1200 x 1200 dpi, 600 x 600 dpi Ink T ypes One 3-color (CMY) cartridge Media T ypes Ink-Jet Printable Surface CD-R, CD-R W , DVD-R, DVD RAM, D[...]

48 Index Index Alignment Calibration ..................................................................41 Cartridge, Change ....................................................................27, 41 CD T ray ..............................................................................................6 Centering T est Print ........................[...]

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