Roland Ver. 4.5 manual

Roland ColorChoice ® Ver. 4.5 USER’S MANUAL Thank you very much for purchasing the Roland printer. • To ensure correct and safe usage with a full understanding of this product’s performance, please be sure to read through this manu al completely and store it in a safe location. • Unauthorized copying or transferal, in whole or in part, of [...]

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We lc o m e Welcome to the User Guide for the Roland ColorC hoice® RIP Software. We recommend that you read and understand this document. This document contains instructions for the Apple® Macintosh® and the Microsoft® Windows® 95/98/ME, Windows® 2000 and Windows NT®. System Requirements Windows The following table lists the minimum and high[...]

System Requirements Macintosh The following table lists the minimum and high volume recommended system setup to run RIP Software. System requirements vary according to the size of t he files to be printed, the output device used, and other variables. Your particular setup and intended use of the software determine what hardware and software setup y[...]

Supported Printers The supported printers are: Hi-Fi JET PRO FJ-600/500/400 Hi-Fi JET FJ-52/42/50/40 CAMM JET CJ-500/400 SOLJET SC-500, SJ-600/500 Windows 95/98/ME Installation 1. Insert the Roland ColorChoice Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. The CD Setup window displays. 2. From the CD Setup window, select the language of the installer you [...]

5. Select LPT1 . You can choose any port in this window. 6. Click Next . The Select Printer Model window displays. 7. Click Brow se to select the PPD file. The PPD files ar e located in the ‘C:Program FilesRoland ColorChoice 4 PPD’ folder. Select the PPD according to your printer model. 8. Select your printer model and click OK . 9. Click Ne[...]

Windows NT 4.0 Installation This section describes how to install the softwar e on computers running Windows NT 4.0. You must logon with Administrator privileges to install the software. 1. Insert the Roland ColorChoice Installation CD into your CD-ROM driver. The CD Setup window displays. 2. From the CD Setup window, select the language of the ins[...]

10. Click Next . The Get Setup Information window displays. 11. Select No for your default printer. 12. Select No for Test page. 13. Click Next . The Printer Properties window displays. 14. Click OK . The Add Another Printer window displays. 15. Click Exit . The Restarting Windows dialog displays. 16. Select Yes and click OK to restart your compute[...]

Windows 2000 Installation This section describes how to install the softwar e on computers running Windows 2000. You must logon with Administrator privileges to install the software. 1. Insert the Roland ColorChoice Installation CD into your CD ROM drive. The CD Setup window displays. 2. From the CD Setup window, select the language of the installe[...]

Uninstalling the Software [Windows] 1. Exit the Roland ColorChoice Software by right cli cking on the Roland ColorChoice icon in the lower right corner of your monitor and selecting Exit from the pop-up menu. 2. Click Start > Settings > Printers . Right click on the printer icon of the printer you installed, and then select Delete from the po[...]

Macintosh Installation 1. Insert the Roland ColorChoice Inst allation CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. Double-click the Installer icon. 3. Select the Installer language from the Installer window and click OK . The Installation Options window displays. 4. Select the language you would like from the Language drop-down box. 5. Click OK . 6. Accept the de[...]

Uninstalling the Software [Macintosh] 1. Quit the Roland ColorChoice Software. 2. Drag the alias for the Roland ColorChoice located in the desktop into the trash. 3. Drag the ‘Roland ColorChoice 4’ Folder into the Trash. 4. Open the ‘System’ folder. 5. Locate and open the ‘Startup Items’ folder. Drag the a lias for the Roland ColorChoic[...]

Getting S t arted [Windows] The Roland ColorChoice is automatically launched each ti me you start your computer. However, you will need to view the Print Monitor in order to work with i t. To view the Print Monitor, double click on the Roland ColorChoice Software icon located in the lower right corner of your computer monitor. [Macintosh] The Rolan[...]

To quit the RIP Software program on Windows, right click on the icon displayed at the lower right corner of your screen, and then select Exit from the pop-up menu. Once you quit in this fashion, you must either restart your computer or use the ‘Start’ menu in order to restart the RIP Software. Printing a Test File To insure that your software i[...]

Menus You may access a number of RIP Software’s functions using the menus at the top of the main window. File Menu The File menu allows you to add a job, save a job as a nat ive format, send, pause, or abort a job or stop the process by exiting. Add Job The Add Job command allows you to add a job directly to the Print Monitor. To Add a Job 1. Fro[...]

Abort A job can be aborted during RIPing or printing. After abor ting a job, all RIPed information is lost and the process must start again. To Abort a Print Job 1. Click on the job you would like to abort. 2. From the File menu select Abort . Exit/Quit The Exit / Quit command ends the program and closes the Print Monitor window. To Exit Program ?[...]

Setup Menu A Setup consists of a device and its associated properties. Change Setup The Change Setup command allows you to change your output dev ice. Switch back to the original setup using the Change Setup command again. Setup Properties Setup Properties displays the default print settings for your printer. S ee Setup Properties section for more [...]

Printing Adding Jobs to the Print Monitor The job management area of RIP Software allows you to add jobs to the Print Monitor. To Add a Job 1. From the File menu select Add Job or click the Add button on the toolbar. 2. Select the job you would like to add then click on Open . 3. To send a job to the printer, select t he job from the Print Monitor [...]

Printing from a Client on Your Network If you have a network of computers and have completed the additional setup in structions for network printing, you can print from any client on your network. When you do this, jobs arrive in the ‘Hot’ folder of the server and are processed like any other job. There are two ways to send jobs to the server f[...]

Setup Properties The Setup Properties window can be accessed from wi thin RIP Software and are settings used to process jobs that do not have properties of their own associated with them. Set up Properties contain settings for a specific output device. If a job is placed in an output device’s Hot Folder, and it does not contain any properties, th[...]

Media Select a media size that is currently loaded into your pr inter. You can specify custom media sizes by selecting Other from the list and then editing the Height and Width values. Height and Width display the size of the media being used, not the total printable area. Margin Displays the margins from the edges of the media. Margins are the are[...]

File Ports The File port behaves like a save to file option. In stead of sending data out through a port on your computer, the File port option will write the data to a file and save it to a specified location. Use the File port to transfer files to another computer, or to troubleshoot a specific output device. TCP/IP You must enter an IP address, [...]

Print Direction Selects whether the print heads prints when it is moving in one direction ( Unidirectional ) or both directions ( Bi-directional ). Unidirectional printing might produce better quality but it is slower. Some media supports only Unidirectional printing. Overprint Defines the number of times to print the same im age superimposed over [...]

ICC Input Profile Input profiles are used to convert the image into a neutra l color space. Once the image is in a neutral color space, the output profile is used to convert the image into the color spac e of the output device. To add an ICC input profile from another source, click the Add button. Three types of ICC i nput profiles can be specified[...]

extent of the gamut's saturation. Color's that fall within the gamut of the output device are shifted closer to the gamut's saturation extent. This rendering intent may also be used to boost colors within a photographic image. Absolute Colorimetric This intent is similar to Relative Colorimetric , but has a different white point valu[...]

Send Packets Specifies the amount of data sent to the device. Changing this value from the default is not recommended. Cutter Driver Options Clicking this button launches the Cutter Driver Options dialog box. Custom Head Tab None When this mode is selected, Roland ColorChoice will not send any settings regarding the cutting operation. The settings [...]

Job Properties Job Properties can be accessed from within RIP Software and are settings associated with a particular job. The Job Properties come from either the Printing Properties set in client, or the Setup Properties set in RIP Software. To change the Job Properties, select Job Properties from the File menu. Within Job Properties you may previe[...]

Width/Height Accepts direct entry of the job’s width or height. When one aspect is altered the other is automatically updated to keep the job proportionally correct. Copies Number You may change the number of copies of the job to be output. Spacing You may change the spacing between the copies that are output. Layout Output at Origin Select this [...]

Job Properties Cut Tab (CAMM JET / SOLJET SC-500) Allows to specify how many times the blade will move over each line ( Passes ), either advance or not the media after cutting ( Advance after plot ), and set the Cutter Driver Options. For more information on Cut Tab options, refer to the Cut Tab section in the Setup Properties section of this manua[...]

Density Adjustment Adjusting the density is an excellent way to compensate fo r variables related to your hardware, such as worn ink jets. Adjusting for density is also a good way to insu re linearization. For exampl e, if you have a gradient from black to white, you want the transition to be smooth, and not weighted in any particular area. Click S[...]

To Simultaneously Edit All Channels You can adjust all channels at the same time by modifying the curve in the same way, and then clicking Apply to All . Keep in mind that any modifications made to a ll channels will override changes you may have made to the individual channels. Click Reset to return the density curve to its default setting. 33[...]

Advanced Printing Procedures [Windows] If your program is not listed, refer to a section on a similar program. Corel® CorelDRAW® 8 [Windows] 1. From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor, click Setup > Setup Properties . Then click the Print tab. 2. Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it. 3. In the ICC input profile a[...]

14. Select the Misc tab and uncheck Use color profile . For " Output color bitmap as " choose CMYK . 15. After these settings, click Print to print. Adobe Illustrator® 8.0 [Windows] The Kodak Color Management System must be installed to output successfully from Illustrator 8 to Roland ColorChoice Software. 1. From the Roland ColorChoice [...]

may occur if these settings are kept different. (For more information about color stitching, refer to "The Transparency Feature of Illustrator 9.0" later in this document.) 3. Click OK in the Setup Properties dialog. 4. In Illus trator, go to File>Document Setup . From the pop-up menu, choose Transparency . 5. The Quality/Speed slider [...]

7. From the Page size field select your paper size or choose Custom for a custom page size. 8. If you choose Custom page size, enter the cu stom size in the height and width fields. 9. Select your printer’s resolution as the Target Output Resolution . If it is not available, select the next highest value. 10. Select your printer in the Compose to[...]

17. Choose Binary from the Encoding selection. 18. Uncheck PostScript Color Management . 19. Click OK to print. 38[...]

Contour Cutting (CAMM JET/SOLJET SC-500) [Windows] Using a SOLJET SC-500 or CAMM JET you can print obj ects and then cut a contour line around them. To use such features, you have to install and use special color libraries in your design application such as Illustrator or QuarkXPress. No special settings or changes are needed on Roland ColorChoice.[...]

Printing and Cutting Limitations in Illustrator 9.0 If Transparency or any effects such as Blur or Drop Shadows are applied to any object in the artboard, the cutting line may be printed. When performing printing and cutting, you should not use Transparency or effects such as Blur at all. Workarounds for this problem and information about spec ial [...]

* The file userinks.cpl in the ‘SpotColorLibraryS OLJET or CAMM JETCorelDraw8’ folder on the Roland ColorChoice Installation CD-ROM is exclusively for CorelDRAW 8. It cannot be used with CorelDRAW 9. Using the Palette 1. Select objects that you want to cut. 2. From the Tool bar select Outline Tool>Outline Color . 3. Click the ' Custom[...]

Advanced Printing Procedures [Macintosh] If your program is not listed, refer to a section on a similar program. Adobe Illustrator 8.0 [Macintosh] ColorSync 2.x or higher and Kodak Digital Science must be installed when using Illustrator to create CMYK files. 1. From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor, click Setup > Setup Properties . Then cli[...]

Adobe Illustrator 9.0 [Macintosh] ColorSync 2.x or higher and Kodak Digital Science must be installed when using Illustrator to create CMYK files. 1. From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor, click Setup>Setup Properties . Then click the Print Tab. 2. Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it. Also, if you're using [...]

Adobe PageMaker 6.5 [Macintosh] ColorSync 2.x or higher must be installed when using P ageMaker to create CMYK files. If, after attempting the following procedure, you still have difficulty printing, save the file as a PostScript file and add it to the Print Monitor using the Add Job function. 1. From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor, click Set[...]

Adobe Photoshop 5.0 [Macintosh] 1. From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor, click Setup > Setup Properties . Then click the Print Tab. 2. Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it. 3. In the ICC input profile are, select appropriate CMYK and RGB profiles. If you know which profiles your application is using, select that[...]

9. Go to File > Page Setup . 10. Choose a standard paper size in the Paper field. 11. Select Custom Page Default from the pop-up menu if a custom page size is required, and enter your custom page size. Then enter a Custom Page Name and click the Add button. 12. Select Page Attributes from the pop-up menu. Select t he defined Custom Page in the ?[...]

Contour Cutting (CAMM JET/SOLJET SC-500) [Macintosh] Using a SOLJET SC-500 or CAMM JET you can print obj ects and then cut a contour line around them. To use such features, you have to install and use special color libraries in your design application such as Illustrator or QuarkXPress. No special settings or changes are needed on Roland ColorChoic[...]

11. Print the file as you normally would. Printing and Cutting Limitations in Illustrator 9.0 If Transparency or any effects such as Blur or Drop Shadows are applied to any object in the artboard, the cutting line may be printed. When performing printing and cutting, you should not use Transparency or effects such as Blur at all. Workarounds for th[...]

Supplement Printing and Cutting Limitations and Workarounds in Illustrator 9.0 Printing and cutting are subject to some limitations when you use the transparency feat ure in Illustrator 9.0. This section provides details about cases w here limitations occur and describes workarounds. Effects That Limit Cutting (The Illustrator 9.0 Transparency Feat[...]

7. In Illustrator 9.0, use the Layer palette to hi de the printed layer. Then unhide only the layer where the cutting line is drawn. 8. Go to "Contour Cutting and Spot Color Printing" earlier in this document and follow the procedures under "Illustrator 9.0" to make the other settings, but use the same dimensions for the media s[...]

Using Flatten Transparency converts all objects using the tr ansparency feature to object that are compatible with Illustrator 8 and the like, and so the cutting line is not affected. This lets you eliminate the limitations on printing and cutting. However, this may displace the clipping mask (es pecially the mask layer). (At Roland DG Corp. we con[...]

License Agreement Carefully read the following te rms and conditions before installing the s oftware. This is a legal agreement between you, the end user (either a n individual or an entit y ), and Rolan d DG Corporation. Use of this program indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions stated below. The enclosed computer program ("Sof[...]