Xerox EXP250 manual

User A ddendum Fiery EXP250 Color Server, v er sion 1.0SP1 f or DocuColor 240/250 Pa rt N umber: 45054549 28 F ebr uary 2006 Copyright 2006 © Electronics for Imaging, I nc. This addendum describes how to upgrade the F iery EXP250 Color Ser ver system software to include features that wer e not covered in the version 1.0 release. The document also [...]

P age 2 •T ray 5 Media P rotection Copier damage is prevented with T ray 5 M edia Pr otection if jobs printed from T ray 5 (Bypass) do not specify a media type. F or more information, see “T ray 5 Media P rotection option ” on page 15. • Clarification of requirements for printing a duplex job in manual or semi-manual mode M anual and semi-[...]

P age 3 T O CHECK FOR AND INSTALL UPDATES MANUALLY FROM THE C ONTROL P ANEL 1T urn off the copier bef ore installing updates. 2P r ess the Menu button to access the Functions menu, and press Sy stem Updates. System U pdates checks the ser ver for new updates and displays a message indicating whether or not updates are available. 3P r ess OK. If upd[...]

P age 4 T O CONFIGURE S YSTEM U PDATES TO CHECK FOR UPDATES FROM THE FACI 1 Click Start and choose Progr ams > Fiery > System Updates . Select the check box for Check for I mpor tant System U pdates. 2 Select the option that describes how y ou want System Updates to r espond when new updates are av ailable. 3 If you select A utomatically down[...]

P age 5 Installing sy stem updates manually If y ou selected a pr eference to be notified of system updates in the System U pdates Prefer ences window , a pop-up message appears when new updates are available. Click the pop-up message to open the System U pdates window . To view a description of an update in the System U pdates window , click to s[...]

P age 6 Updating sy stem softwar e through W ebT ools Y ou can also check for system software updates from a secur e site on the Internet. Updates to user software may also be available. T O CHECK FOR SOFTWARE UPDATES 1 Start W ebT ools. 2T ype the Administr ator password and click OK. 3 Click Softw are Updates. If Software U pdates does not appear[...]

P age 7 9 After the Fiery EXP250 reaches idle , reboot the Fiery EXP250. U sing the Fiery EXP250 Control P anel, choose Shut Do wn from the Functions menu, and then choose Reboot System. The Control P anel should display the version as version 1.0SP1. W ait until the F ier y EXP250 has come to idle after the second reboot to print the Configuratio[...]

P age 8 Uninstalling Fiery EXP250 printer driver s To uninstall Windo ws printer drivers, refer to the section “U sing Fiery Printer D elete Utility ” in the P rinting Utilities chapter of Printing fr om Windows on the U ser Documentation CD. To uninstall Mac OS X printer drivers, use the follo wing procedure. T O REMOVE THE M AC OS X PRINTER D[...]

P age 9 6 Delete the fierycupsfilter with the T erminal utility (r equires root administr ator password). •O pen the T erminal utility by br owsing to /Applications/U tilities/T erminal. Double-click T erminal to launch the utility . • Change to the fierycupsfilter directory by entering cd /usr/libexec/cups/filter The command prompt reflects[...]

P age 10 Mac OS X printer driver s Two versions o f Mac OS X printer driver When you install the updated Mac OS X printer driver , you can install a F ast version, which does not check for incompatible print option settings but runs faster , or a Comprehensive version, which prevents y ou from choosing incompatible print option settings at the expe[...]

P age 11 Cancel on Mismatch Cancel on Mismatch option The Cancel on Mismatch option causes a job to be cancelled if the media specified for the job (size and weight) is not available. The job is cancelled with an error and mo ved to the Printed queue, allowing the F iery EXP250 to continue printing other jobs. The Cancel on Mismatch T imeout optio[...]

P age 12 5 Click the Accessories tab . 6T o manually set the Tr ay 6 (Oversized) option, select the option in the A vailable Options list, and click Add to mo ve the option to the Installed Options list. 7 Alternatively , to configure installed options automatically by r etrieving the settings from the Fiery EXP250, select Tw o-W ay Communication,[...]

P age 13 T O INSTALL AND CONFIGURE THE UPDATED VERSION 1.0 PRINTER DRIVER ON M AC OS X 1 If the ver sion 1.0 printer driver is installed, remo ve it. F or instructions, see page 8. 2 Install the updated ver sion 1.0 printer driver either from the CD or using W ebT ools. Y ou can install a F ast version or a Comprehensive v ersion. For more informat[...]

P age 14 T O INSTALL AND CONFIGURE THE UPDATED VERSION 1.0 PRINTER DRIVER ON M AC OS 9 1 If the ver sion 1.0 printer driver is installed, remo ve it. 2 Install the updated ver sion 1.0 printer driver either from the CD or using W ebT ools. F or more information on installing and configuring the printer driver , see the Setting U p P rinting on Mac[...]

P age 15 Tr ay 5 Media Protection Tr ay 5 Media Protection option By default, a job prints with the copier’ s default media type, which is Plain, because the default setting for the Media T ype print option is U se Machine Settings. H owever , T ray 5 (Bypass) does not detect the media type actually loaded in the tray . If users load heavyweight [...]

P age 16 Manual duplex printing Manual duplex printing using T ray 5 (Bypass) or Tr ay 6 (Oversized) M anual duplex printing is supported using either T ray 5 (Bypass) or T ray 6 (Oversized) as the paper source. Y ou can print duplex output in a fully manual mode, determining the required paper manipulation yourself, or y ou can print in a semi-man[...]

P age 17 N OTE : The illustrations below show pages with P ortrait orientation printed LEF (Long Edge F irst). F or T op-Bottom printing, rotate the pages 180 degrees and turn them face down. N OTE : F or jobs imposed using Impose, always flip the pages along the long edge of the page. 6 Print the second job with the same settings as the first, b[...]

P age 18 T O PRINT IN SEMI - MANUAL MODE 1 Choose Print in your application. 2 Set the print options as follo ws: •M anual Duplex = Manual •F ace-D own Printing = F ace Up •P aper Sour ce = T ray 5 (Bypass) or T ray 6 (Oversized) 3 Print the job . The even-numbered pages ar e printed. 4 If you ar e printing from Tr ay 5 (Bypass), remov e any [...]

P age 19 N OTE : The illustrations below show pages with P ortrait orientation printed LEF (Long Edge F irst). F or T op-Bottom printing, rotate the pages 180 degrees and turn them face down. 7F or Tr ay 6 (Oversized), pr ess the Start button on the copier control panel. T ray 5 (Bypass) will detect that the pages have been loaded, so you do not ne[...]

P age 20 Production Printing P ackage Production Printing P ackage featur es The P roduction Printing P ackage (available as an option) offers F iery EXP250 operators (or users with Operator or Administrator privileges) various additional featur es to monitor and manage the print workflow of jobs on the F iery EXP250. All the features are accessib[...]

P age 21 Compose The Compose application allows you to define the chapter divisions of a job , print ranges of pages on varying types of media, insert blank media between pages, and insert tab media containing text labels. Y ou can also preview the job as thumbnails and full screen previews, and edit documents using Acrobat and P itStop. A special[...]

P age 22 T O ACCESS P APER C ATALOG FROM C OMMAND W ORK S TATION •T o open P aper Catalog from Command W orkStation, select a spooled/held job in the Activ e Jobs window and choose P aper Catalog from the Serv er menu. F or information about using P aper Catalog, access Paper Catalog H elp from the P aper Catalog Help menu or pr ess the F1 key on[...]

P age 23 Reorder Jobs The F ier y EXP250 processes and prints batches of selected jobs in order of each job ’ s place in the queue. The Reorder J obs feature allows y ou to control the processing or printing priority by reordering the job queue. When you promote jobs in the queue, these jobs take priority ov er the rest of the jobs on the F ier y[...]

P age 24 Suspend on Mismatch Suspend on M ismatch puts a job on hold when the Fiery EXP250 cannot start printing due to missing resources or a color profile mismatch. O ther jobs in the queue continue to print on the F ier y EXP250. The reasons for a job being suspended are: •S pecified paper type or size are not available. •F inishing option[...]

P age 25 Schedule Printing The Schedule P rinting feature allows you to set a specific date and time for printing a job. Assign Schedule P rinting settings to a job from the following areas: •J ob P roperties window in Command W orkStation, Windows Edition, and Command Wo rkS tation, Macintosh Edition (see Command W orkStation H elp and the foll[...]

P age 26 Print Next The P rint Next feature mo ves a selected job immediately to the printing queue. If another job is currently printing, the selected job for P rint Next is printed immediately after . Process Ne xt The P rocess Next featur e moves the selected job immediately to the processing queue. If another job is currently processing, the se[...]

P age 27 The Insert T ab dialog box appears. 3T o load a pre viously saved tab setting, click Load Setting, highlight the desired tab setting, and then click Select. 4 Enter the number of tab pages that y ou want to insert into the document in the T otal number of tabs field. 5 Enter the number of tab positions included in a complete tab set in th[...]

11 After you finish specifying the tabs , click OK to close the Insert T ab dialog box. The T abs T ext dialog box appears. U se the following procedure to define the tab text. T O SPECIFY TAB TEXT 1 In the T abs T ext dialog bo x, select the “ Apply same text attributes f or all tabs” option to assign the same text attrib utes to all tabs. 2[...]

P age 29 5T o modify media settings for the tabs , click Change T ab Settings. F or more information, see “T o insert tab pages ” on page 26. 6 After you finish specifying tab te xt, click OK to close the T abs T ext dialog box. The Mixed M edia dialog box displays the current tab settings in the M ixed Media Definition list. 7T o apply your [...]

P age 30 Specifying filter settings for a Hot F older After specifying the filter settings and options for your Hot F older , drag and drop the proper file formats onto your Hot F older to begin the conversion process. Open the F ilter Settings dialog box from the F older P roperties dialog box. T O SELECT A FILTER SETTING 1F r om the Hot Folder[...]